Days after expressing no confidence in Premier Jeremy Rockliff, Tasmanian politicians will return to parliament to pass emergency budget supply bills. Once they pass, the focus will turn to Governor Barbara Baker who will decide whether Tasmanians head to an extremely early election.
00:00Just a day out from a fateful meeting with the Governor, the Premier's still intent on plunging the state into an early election.
00:11A move his team says has their full support.
00:14We're backing our Premier. We will not let the Labor Party decide who the leader of the Liberal Party is.
00:20Today provided a glimpse of what an election campaign could look like. The Liberals attacking the opposition leader.
00:26You contrast that with an inexperienced, selfish and egomaniacal leader in Dean Winter.
00:33Labor claiming the government's privatisation agenda remains alive.
00:37You cannot trust a Premier who says that he believes in privatisation and then as soon as he's going to an election he says that he doesn't.
00:44And the crossbench trying to get rid of the Hobart AFL stadium.
00:48The Tasmanian people don't want the stadium. They want this contract renegotiated.
00:54A collection of 21 MPs and local mayors writing to the AFL.
00:58Just days after the lower house passed a no confidence motion in the Premier, politicians will return tomorrow to pass emergency budget supply bills.
01:07Ensuring public servants can continue to be paid during and after an election campaign.
01:13We're not ready for an election because we want one.
01:15We're ready because the Premier of Tasmania has put his own self interest ahead of Tasmania's interests.
01:21There's absolutely time for Dean Winter and Jeremy Rockliffe to stop this impending election, to act in good faith.
01:30All eyes will be on Government House tomorrow afternoon as the Governor weighs up her options.
01:35Granting an early election, asking another Liberal MP to try and form a minority government,
01:41or asking Labour with just 10 MPs to try and form one.
