The Liberals won 14 of the 35 lower house seats at the July 19 Tasmanian state election, Labor ten, the Greens five, independents five and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers one.
Liberal Jeremy Rockliff was reappointed premier pending parliament’s resumption on Tuesday. Labor moved a no-confidence motion in Rockliff, but it failed by 24 votes to 10. Labor didn’t get votes from any non-Labor MP. The Liberals will continue to govern Tasmania, with Labor’s last period in government ending in 2014.
The no-confidence motion was doomed after the Greens announced they would not support it on Monday. I previously wrote that the Greens had been frustrated by their negotiations with Labor.
