Tasmanian Labor fails to secure Greens support for no-confidence motion

1m agoMon 18 Aug 2025 at 4:46am

Vote may still go ahead

This announcement by the Greens effectively ends Labor and Dean Winter’s tilt at forming government, Josh Duggan writes.

Labor won 10 out of 35 seats at the July 19 state election — 8 short of majority.

The party could only have formed government by getting the backing of the five Green votes on side, as well as three crossbenchers.

That means while tomorrow’s motion is doomed to fail — it may still go ahead.

Before the Greens made their announcement, Dean Winter held a press conference and was asked if there was any reason he wouldn’t move the motion.

He said that parliament had been recalled by the governor in order to test confidence, and therefore it needed to do so to provide certainty.

Labor may want a formal record of the vote, to be able to point to “Liberal-Green” government.