- In short: Tasmania's Liberals now lead a minority government after two northern MPs quit the party to sit as independents, partially over concerns about a $715 million stadium for Hobart.
- What's next? The new minority Liberal government needs the votes of two other MPs to pass legislation in the lower house — which now has four independents, two Greens MPs and eight Labor MPs.
Two Tasmanian Liberal MPs have quit the party to sit as independents, pushing Australia's only remaining Liberal stronghold into minority governance.
Bass member Lara Alexander and Lyons member John Tucker resigned this morning as both party members and members of the parliamentary Liberal Party.
