00:00The last Lambie standing.
00:05After culling her state team, Jackie Lambie's pulling the plug on her Tasmanian experiment.
00:10I don't see, unless Andrew wants to run again, that I will be playing in state politics.
00:16Giving ordinary people a leg up and trying to get them in, we just don't have the functions
00:22within the network to do that.
00:24Senator Lambie claiming her relationship with Miriam Beswick and Rebecca Pemland, who she
00:28kicked out of the party on the weekend, have been on the rocks for months.
00:33There was no deterioration, they just stopped talking to me within a few weeks of the election.
00:37Opposition parties say they're not surprised by the implosion of the state's fourth political
00:41force.
00:42Well, I think this experiment's been a massive disaster, both for Jackie, unfortunately,
00:47and for Tasmanians.
00:48When you have a party that never talks about what its priorities are, never presents policies,
00:55it's not surprising that they don't have any cohesion.
00:59Senator Lambie says she still plans to run Senate candidates in four states at the upcoming
01:03federal election.
01:05And despite attracting the ire of her former colleagues by calling for Michael Ferguson
01:09to be sacked as infrastructure minister, she'll keep speaking out about state politics.
01:14I'm a senator for Tasmania, you can bet your arse I'm going to be.
01:17I'll be holding them accountable like I always have in the past, and always will in the future.
01:21Not satisfied with Mr Ferguson losing the infrastructure portfolio, she wants him stripped
01:26of his other ministerial roles.
01:28This doesn't bring instability to Tasmania, all you're doing is saying, hey listen, you've
01:32been a bad little boy.
01:33You're going to sit on that backbench and think about your actions.
01:36That's called discipline.
01:37I have a great deal of faith and confidence in Michael Ferguson as Treasurer and Deputy
01:43Premier.
01:44Changes to the Cabinet are now official, following a swearing-in at Government House yesterday
01:48afternoon.
01:49But the media wasn't invited.
01:52Premier Jeremy Rockleaf has taken on infrastructure, while Mr Ferguson, who hasn't fronted the
01:57cameras since tendering his resignation, is now in charge of small business and consumer
02:02affairs.
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