{"id":47205,"date":"2025-08-06T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47205\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:45:08","slug":"fresh-no-confidence-motion-to-be-moved-in-rockliff-government-labor-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47205\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh no-confidence motion to be moved in Rockliff government, Labor confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tasmanian Labor leader Dean Winter says a no-confidence motion will be moved in the Liberal government when parliament returns on August 19.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Rockliff was reappointed as premier on Wednesday morning<\/a>, after requesting that the Tasmanian governor recommission his government.<\/p>\n

Neither the Liberals, nor Labor, won enough seats to form a majority government<\/a> in the July 19 state election.<\/p>\n

Tasmanians just voted at a state election in July<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite having voted the year before, Tasmanians went back to the polls on July 19 for an early state election. Here is how the night unfolded.<\/p>\n

Both major parties fell short of the 18 needed to control the lower house, with the Liberals winning 14 seats to Labor’s 10 \u2014 the same as before the election.<\/p>\n

As part of her reason for reappointing Mr Rockliff as premier, Governor Barbara Baker AC said “it is better for confidence to be determined inside and not outside the parliament”.<\/p>\n

Governor Baker said parliament will be recalled to sit on August 19 \u2014 one month on from the state election.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday afternoon, Mr Winter confirmed a no-confidence motion would be moved.<\/p>\n

“Whether it’s by us or an independent, there’ll be a motion moved in parliament of no-confidence in the Liberals and confidence in a Labor government,” Mr Winter said.Rockliff reappointed as premier after meeting governor<\/a><\/p>\n

Tasmania’s governor reappoints Jeremy Rockliff as premier but says it will be parliament that ultimately decides whether his Liberal minority government survives.<\/p>\n

Mr Winter said he would meet with all independent members of the crossbench on Thursday to outline “the way we think this parliament should work”.<\/p>\n

“I’ll speak to every member of the Tasmanian parliament, whether they’re Liberals, Greens, independents, or the SFF \u2014 we need to speak with every member,” he said.<\/p>\n

It comes after Mr Winter repeatedly said Labor would not hold any discussions or do deals with the Greens.<\/p>\n

“I understand that Jeremy Rockliff is saying he’s going to refuse supply and confidence from the Greens,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The Greens will make their own decisions about the way that they approach the next parliament.”<\/p>\n

Mr Rockliff and his cabinet will be sworn in at a ceremony at Government House early next week.<\/p>\n

Motion won’t ‘result in another election’, Labor says<\/p>\n

Mr Winter’s decision to move a no-confidence motion in the Liberal government comes two months after he moved a no-confidence motion in Mr Rockliff, which triggered an early election.<\/p>\n

“Tasmanians can be assured that any motion we move will not result in another election, it will result in either a Liberal government or a Labor government,” Mr Winter said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This year’s election, held on July 19, resulted in a hung parliament with the Liberals winning 14 seats, Labor 10, the Greens five, independent MPs also winning five and one seat going to the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party.<\/p>\n

The state election was the fourth one held in seven years. It was also the second early election in a row to elect a minority government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Labor leader Dean Winter says a no-confidence motion will be moved in the Liberal government when parliament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4269,43,44,7170,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-47205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-dean-winter","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rockliff","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}