Archer is pushing for extensive reform in a party that is electorally on the ropes and out of office everywhere except her home state of Tasmania.
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Gutwein left saying he had held the ‘best job in the world’ but the responsibility had taken its toll and he had ‘nothing left in the tank’.
Pokies, housing, hospitals and gun laws might have been the specific issues that dominated the campaign, but the decisive factor was Tasmanians’ enduring apprehension about minority government.
The Liberals went from a losing position in Tasmanian polls months ago to a comfortable victory on election day.
The Liberals should win a majority at Saturday’s Tasmanian state election.
Both major parties have declared they will not form minority government in Tasmania – talk that should be taken seriously, but not literally.
The Jacqui Lambie Network plan is short on detail and unlikely to improve the health system or outcomes for Tasmanians over the longer term.
Bob Brown’s successful High Court challenge to an anti-protest law in Tasmania will cause many states to review their own protest laws.
Malcolm Turnbull’s postal plebiscite on marriage equality is on the cusp of recreating the mistakes of Doug Lowe’s Tasmanian dams plebiscite.
Minority governments can successfully prosecute their policy agendas even while being destabilised.
All three Tasmanian Liberal-held House of Representatives seats – Bass, Lyons and Braddon – will be critical to the election result.
Christine Milne has been seen as an ideological politician. But her record of working with minority governments of both stripes showed she could deliver on her agenda from outside the mainstream.
The Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Bill – locally known as the “anti-protest” bill – was passed by Tasmanian parliament late on Tuesday night. The law was introduced as part of the government’s…
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Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Tas Law Reform Institue / Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Associate at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of Tasmania
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Casual Academic, University of Tasmania
