Missteps All Around Leaves Tasmania With a Hung Parliament

Published on March 26, 2024

Commentary Australia’s island state, Tasmania, went to the polls on Saturday, March 23, and produced a hung parliament with the Liberals set to continue in government with the assistance of a varied crossbench. Having called the election early, Liberal Premier Jeremy Rockliff clearly did not want the result he was given by the Tasmanian people. Having inherited a majority centre-right Liberal government from his predecessor Peter Gutwein, the new premier soon found himself in trouble when two of his backbenchers resigned from the governing party room to sit as independents. Despite commanding a sizeable primary vote at the last election, the vagaries of Tasmania’s peculiar electoral system (Hare-Clark) delivered a one-seat majority....

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