00:00He says it's about balancing the different things that he's been weighing up.
00:07One is representing his local electorate in the north-eastern suburbs and the other is
00:12spending time with his young family.
00:14He has a four-year-old and a five-month-old.
00:16So he says he's made this decision, being opposition leader is one of the hardest jobs
00:21he says, and he's made this decision to try and balance those other important things in
00:26his life.
00:27But of course, this decision and the announcement of it comes about 15 weeks out from the election
00:34and also off the back of a number of polls that have shown, you know, an extreme, essentially
00:40an electoral disaster if the Liberal Party continues on the path that it's on.
00:45And the latest of those was actually Liberal internal polling that leaked out to the media
00:51and multiple sources have told the ABC would have seen the Liberals lose the majority of
00:56the 13 seats that they have left in State Parliament.
01:00But despite all of those pressures on Vincent Tarzia, he told the media in this press conference
01:06that he hasn't been pushed out of the job.
01:10No colleague has pushed me.
01:13There's been no letter petition signed or anything like that.
01:17No colleague has told me to step down.
01:20You know, if any of you have got any of those sources, you're within your rights to say who they are.
01:24But nobody has said to me that I should step down.
01:26This is a decision that I have made of my own accord.
01:28Labor has essentially been in power in South Australia for the best part of two decades.
01:34We did have the term of the Marshall government, which, you know, that was during COVID.
01:39Stephen Marshall saw the state through COVID, but only lasted one term.
01:44And Labor's Peter Malinowska stormed back into power in 2022 off the back of a really strong campaign
01:51focusing on the health system.
01:53And that left the Liberal Party in a pretty difficult position with a very reduced number of seats in Parliament.
02:00And the Liberal Party has also faced other leadership challenges.
02:05After that unsuccessful election for the Liberal Party, Stephen Marshall retired from politics.
02:11He was succeeded by David Spears, who then also quit the leadership and was later convicted on drug supply charges.
02:19Vincent Tarzia took over from David Spears.
02:22It's now speculated that the best chance of leadership that they've got is Ashton Hearn,
02:28who's currently the shadow health minister.
02:31She previously was an advisor to Stephen Marshall.
02:35She has said in recent press conferences that she has no interest in the leadership,
02:40but that will now be decided in a ballot of party members.
02:44So, it's my pleasure.
02:52You know, I'm happy to see you at that time.
02:53It's a very hard time for the rest of the day I've got to hear from that environment.
02:55It's been a hard time for me to get to see you on purpose.
02:57So let's do this.
02:58I have to hang out here.
02:58I'm happy to see you on the streets.
02:59But today, you know, this has been a tollje.
03:01So I've noticed a few years I've got to see you on next step.
03:04So I'm happy to hear from surprising them,
03:06I'm happy to see you on Instagram through the other side.
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