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Rosalie Woodruff says she can’t support Mr Winter becoming premier due to his lack of compromise on policy positions. (ABC News: Simon Farrell)<\/p>\n
‘Horse-trading’ policies won’t work, Winter says<\/p>\n
Mr Winter defended his bargaining position, arguing this term of state parliament needed to work differently if it was to last the full four years after three consecutive early elections.<\/p>\n
Greens unwilling to give Labor blank cheque<\/a><\/p>\n During every AFL trade week, there are a couple of deals that go down to the wire. And it seems, so is the case with the deals to form minority government in Tasmania.<\/p>\n “If it’s about horse trading at the start where we’re giving away policy and we’re asking them to compromise as well then it’s not going to last very long,” he said.<\/p>\n “This is much more serious than one or two policies early, it has to be about a lasting parliament.<\/p>\n “Let’s be honest, with this parliament and the make-up there are going to be wins for independents and the crossbench.”<\/p>\n Mr Winter has indicated he is open to discussing policy compromise once Labor has formed government \u2014 including on measures to protect the environment, which he said was “really important to me”.<\/p>\n He committed to a “policy framework” that would see ideas from all members of parliament considered in detail.<\/p>\n Mr Winter says crossbenchers will likely get policy wins in parliament due to the make up of votes. (ABC News: Simon Farrell)<\/p>\n Mr Winter also said all ideas to improve the state’s budget position would be considered as part of the party’s budget roundtable process, including ideas to generate additional revenue by increasing current taxes or imposing new ones.<\/p>\n But he has refused to agree to the Greens’ demand that he provide concessions up front.<\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n “I’d like to sit down and discuss where we can find common ground and there are areas around housing, around budget repair, around integrity where we can work together,” Mr Winter said.<\/p>\n “But what Rosalie has effectively said, she’s issued an ultimatum, unless we do X, Y and Z then it’s a no, and I don’t think issuing ultimatums is the way to work together and no-one else on the crossbench has done the ultimatum approach either.<\/p>\n “The conversations have been really positive with the independents and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, that’s the kind of engagement I want to have.<\/p>\n “It might be at the end that [the Greens] decide to back the Liberals. I’d be really disappointed if they did, but I’ll accept it.” A fresh no-confidence motion against Premier Jeremy Rockliff will be made when parliament returns next week. (ABC News: Mackenzie Heard)<\/p>\n A Greens spokesperson said the decision to not attend Tuesday’s meeting with Labor and crossbench MPs was also agreed to by Mr Winter.<\/p>\n “It was jointly acknowledged that the conversation between Labor and the Greens had not progressed far enough,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n “It’s hardly good faith for Mr Winter to claim otherwise.<\/p>\n “The Greens’ door is still open. We hope Labor comes back to the table to negotiate tangible outcomes for the people of Tasmania.”<\/p>\n Liberals open to compromise<\/p>\n The Liberal Party has already made a pair of policy compromises in a bid to win over the crossbench.<\/p>\n It announced it would no longer open up to 40,000 hectares of previously protected native forest for logging<\/a>, and would end greyhound racing by 2029<\/a>.<\/p>\n Treasurer Eric Abetz said further concessions would also be considered as part of the government’s multi-partisan budget panel, which held its first meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n Mr Abetz said he made clear he’d take action to fix the state’s budget position, one of three reasons for the no-confidence motion moved in Mr Rockliff in June.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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