Overview

• Labor’s no‑confidence bid failed 24–10 without crossbench support, keeping Jeremy Rockliff in office in a hung lower house of Liberals 14, Labor 10 and Greens 5 plus other crossbenchers.
• Labor replaced Dean Winter with Josh Willie as leader and Janie Finlay as deputy, with Willie pledging a reset focused on healthcare, housing, education and jobs while maintaining support for traditional industries.
• Rockliff outlined early priorities including consultations toward a November budget, legislation to create the state‑owned insurer TasInsure by 2026, stronger rights for pets in rentals, an EOI for four new bulk‑billing clinics and updated Spirit of Tasmania IV costings.
• The Liberals’ path relies on crossbench deals that have already produced commitments to phase out greyhound racing by 2029, halt new native forest logging releases and pause salmon expansion for an independent review, with resistance persisting on the Hobart stadium.
• Treasury pressures loom with net debt projected to reach about $13 billion by 2027–28, and the government announced a $20 million bridging loan to GFG Alliance’s Liberty Bell Bay smelter to secure ore and keep operations running.