{"id":76622,"date":"2025-08-18T04:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76622\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:49:06","slug":"tasmanian-labor-fails-to-secure-greens-support-for-no-confidence-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76622\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Labor fails to secure Greens support for no-confidence motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1m agoMon 18 Aug 2025 at 4:46am<\/p>\n<p>Vote may still go ahead<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">This announcement by the Greens effectively ends Labor and Dean Winter&#8217;s tilt at forming government, Josh Duggan writes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Labor won 10 out of 35 seats at the July 19 state election \u2014 8 short of majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The party could only have formed government by getting the backing of the five Green votes on side, as well as three crossbenchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">That means while tomorrow&#8217;s motion is doomed to fail \u2014 it may still go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Before the Greens made their announcement, Dean Winter held a press conference and was asked if there was any reason he wouldn&#8217;t move the motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Labor may want a formal record of the vote, to be able to point to &#8220;Liberal-Green&#8221; government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1m agoMon 18 Aug 2025 at 4:46am Vote may still go ahead This announcement by the Greens effectively&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33851,4269,4268,4271,45837,43,1481,4270,34404,1871,44,58905,9801,822,12458,14756,8539,2801,41,39,42,40,58906],"class_list":["post-76622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crossbench","tag-dean-winter","tag-election","tag-greens","tag-greyhound","tag-headlines","tag-house","tag-jeremy-rockliff","tag-leader","tag-leadership","tag-news","tag-no-confidence","tag-parliament","tag-racing","tag-salmon","tag-speaker","tag-tas","tag-tasmania","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-woodruff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76622","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=76622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}