Tasmania prepares for no confidence vote as parliament returns - ABC listen

Tasmania prepares for no confidence vote as parliament returns - ABC listen

Tasmanian parliament is set to return next week after a no-confidence motion sent the Rockliff government to a snap election in July. But with another no-confidence motion on the horizon, what's in store for the future of Tasmanian politics?

Greens may be a problem for Labor in next week’s Tasmanian no-confidence vote

On Tuesday, Greens leader Rosalie Woodruff said the Greens would not support Labor in the confidence vote “at this stage”, saying Labor leader Dean Winter had not shown any intention to compromise on issues the Greens said they’d fight for. Federally and in most mainland states, single-member systems are used for lower house elections and proportional systems for upper house elections (Queensland has no upper house), but Tasmania uses a proporti…