Tasmania's premier's ultimatum to two independent MPs remains unanswered with John Tucker yet to speak on the matter. Jeremy Rockliff has threatened there could be an early election if Mr Tucker and Lara Alexander don't strike a new agreement with him.
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00:00 A day after the Premier issued his election threat, it's business as usual for the government.
00:09 The Deputy Premier backing his leader's decision to attempt to reach a new, stricter agreement
00:16 with former Liberal backbenchers Lara Alexander and John Tucker.
00:20 The Premier's been quite clear that he'll now enter into an agreement making phase with
00:26 the two independents.
00:27 We hope it's fruitful and successful.
00:29 A conciliatory approach taken towards the two independents, but not the Labor opposition,
00:35 with the whiff of an election in the air.
00:38 The biggest troublemaker in the Tasmanian Parliament is in fact Rebecca White and the
00:42 Labor Party.
00:43 They create mischief, they're constantly trying to create stunts and waste of time activities.
00:50 There is one common factor here and that is Jeremy Rockleaf's leadership.
00:53 His leadership caused the defectors to leave the government.
00:58 It's a waiting game for the public, the opposition and apparently the Premier, with Mr Tucker
01:03 still considering his response to the demand for a new agreement.
01:07 And while there's talk of negotiations, some say there's little chance it will resolve.
01:13 They've made the point that they would like to be independents and they don't want to
01:18 be former Liberals committed to the necessarily the Liberal agenda on which they were elected.
01:24 And as much as the Premier insists he doesn't want an early election, is he now ready to
01:29 pull the trigger?
01:30 I think this is the off-ramp that the Premier has finally decided he needs to take.
01:37 Perhaps it's no longer a matter of if, but when.
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