00:00Parliament is returning tomorrow and that follows the election on July 19 which delivered
00:06a hung parliament. So the Liberals have 14 seats, Labor 10, the Greens 5 and the remainder
00:13of the 35 seat parliament is made up of other cross benches. And so Labor was and maybe
00:21still will put forward a motion of no confidence in the Liberals to try and seize power. But
00:28in order for that to pass, the Labor Party would have needed the support of the Greens,
00:35all five members of the Greens plus three other cross benches to get it over the line.
00:40And over the past couple of weeks or a few weeks since the election, both of the major
00:44parties have been trying to court the cross benches with different ideas and proposals.
00:50And the Liberal Party has put forward more policy concessions certainly than the Labor
00:57Party, things on salmon farming, on forestry, on greyhound racing that really attracted members
01:04of what is a largely progressive cross bench. Now Labor's been unwilling to budge on any of
01:12its current policies and instead the only thing that it put forward of note was saying that
01:19they would have an upper house independent upper house member as treasurer if they were to secure
01:28government. Now the Greens have said over the past week or so that they weren't happy with
01:33Labor's resistance to offer any concessions. They said last week that at that stage they wouldn't
01:39provide support. And today on the eve of this crucial vote in parliament, the Greens leader has said,
01:46that's it, we're not going to provide support to the Labor Party.
01:50What is clear is that Jeremy Rockcliffe obviously understands the minority parliament dynamics that
01:56he's working in and Dean Winter does not. And so it is with great disappointment and frustration
02:06that the Greens have come to a united decision that we do not have confidence in Dean Winter's
02:13Labor being the next government for Tasmania. And if, and to be very clear, neither do we
02:19have confidence in the Liberal government. So if Dean Winter does move the motion that he's
02:26foreshadowed in parliament tomorrow, a motion of no confidence in the Liberal government and
02:31a motion of confidence in himself, then the Greens will be voting against that motion.
02:36Well, essentially it means status quo if things proceed as we're hearing. We have seen a statement
02:44that Labor has put up on Facebook. We haven't yet heard from them directly or been able to put
02:49specific questions to them. But what they've said on Facebook is, quote, the Greens have just sided
02:54with Jeremy Rockcliffe and Erica Betts to form a Liberal Green government. Now, whether or not they
03:00proceed with their intended motion of no confidence or some other form of language, some other form of,
03:06motion tomorrow, we have to wait and see what they have to say. But at this stage, it appears that the
03:13Liberal minority government led by Jeremy Rockcliffe will continue to govern in Tasmania. And it'll have
03:20to implement those concessions that it had provided to the crossbenchers. So those things like a moratorium
03:27on any expansion of salmon farming in Tasmania while a review takes place into the industry. Also, there's
03:37the phase out of greyhound racing over the next four years, plus that forestry policy that they're no
03:45longer going to proceed with. So tomorrow, parliament will resume and the first order of business will be the
03:52election of a speaker. And then it'll probably be in the afternoon sometime that we find out exactly how
03:58Labor handles whether or not they're going to proceed with this motion of no confidence given that they
04:05would not win it if they put it to the parliament.
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