Overview
- Tarzia will relinquish the leadership at 5pm local time on Friday, ahead of the March state poll.
- He said he made the call to focus on his young family and his Hartley electorate responsibilities.
- Party briefings on internal polling indicated the Liberals could lose a majority of their 13 seats, with support leaking to One Nation.
- Shadow health spokesperson Ashton Hurn has been discussed as a potential replacement, though she has previously ruled out seeking the leadership.
- Tarzia becomes the fourth state or territory Liberal leader to depart in recent months, and he says he will remain as the MP for Hartley and support the next leader.