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Best blames party in fight to retain seat
Published: Mon 17 Mar 2014, 6:45am
INTERNAL division in the Labor Party was still apparent between rogue MP Brenton Best and sitting member Bryan Green on election night. [Read more]
Tasmanian votes destroyed after being damaged by letter-opening machine
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 6:10pm
A total of 163 postal votes have been destroyed in Tasmania after they were irreparably damaged by a letter-opening machine, the state's electoral commission has revealed. Topics: elections, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, hobart-7000, tas [Read more]
Hodgman gets to work after emphatic win
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 4:25pm
Tasmania's Liberal Party has spent its first day taking the reins of office after 16 years in opposition. The Liberals posted their best ever election result on Saturday night, claiming at least 14 of the [Read more]
PLP to decide Giddings’ fate
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 3:15pm
OUTGOING Premier Lara Giddings has vowed to let the elected members of the Labor Party decide her future. [Read more]
Hard graft starts for Hodgman
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 2:05pm
TASMANIA’S new Premier-elect Will Hodgman has spent the morning meeting with some of the state’s most senior public servants. [Read more]
Hodgman gets down to business
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 1:30pm
TASMANIA’S new Premier-elect Will Hodgman has spent the morning meeting with some of the state’s most senior public servants. [Read more]
Same-sex wedding push continues
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 11:55am
MARRIAGE equality advocates have called on Tasmania’s new Liberal premier to honour a recent vow to allow a free vote on same-sex unions. [Read more]
Hodgman gets down to business after emphatic win
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 11:50am
Tasmania's premier-elect Will Hodgman is wasting no time in getting straight down to work one day after the Liberals stormed into power. With 80 per cent of the vote counted, the Liberal Party has captured [Read more]
Tasmania's new Premier Will Hodgman gets down to business a day after emphatic win
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 10:50am
Tasmania's new Premier is wasting no time, getting straight down to work the day after the Liberals stormed into power. With 80 per cent of the vote counted, the Liberal Party has captured more than [Read more]
Liberals swept to power in Tasmania, hung parliament looms in SA
Published: Sun 16 Mar 2014, 10:30am
Labor has been swept from power in Tasmania but is clinging to life in South Australia after both states went to the polls on Saturday. Voters called time on 16 years of Labor rule in [Read more]