After sacking two state MPs from her Jacqui Lambie Network over the weekend, the party founder says she tried to give ordinary Tasmanians a go in politics, but it had not worked out. She will no longer run candidates at Tasmanian state elections, meaning the FLN’s sole remaining MP Andrew Jenner, is likely to be the party’s last in state parliament.
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00:00The last Lambie standing.
00:05After culling her state team, Jackie Lambie's pulling the plug on her Tasmanian experiment.
00:10I don't see, unless Andrew wants to run again, that I will be playing in state politics.
00:16Giving ordinary people a leg up and trying to get them in, we just don't have the functions
00:22within the network to do that.
00:24Senator Lambie claiming her relationship with Miriam Beswick and Rebecca Pemland, who she
00:28kicked out of the party on the weekend, have been on the rocks for months.
00:33There was no deterioration, they just stopped talking to me within a few weeks of the election.
00:37Opposition parties say they're not surprised by the implosion of the state's fourth political
00:41force.
00:42Well, I think this experiment's been a massive disaster, both for Jackie, unfortunately,
00:47and for Tasmanians.
00:48When you have a party that never talks about what its priorities are, never presents policies,
00:55it's not surprising that they don't have any cohesion.
00:59Senator Lambie says she still plans to run Senate candidates in four states at the upcoming
01:03federal election.
01:05And despite attracting the ire of her former colleagues by calling for Michael Ferguson
01:09to be sacked as infrastructure minister, she'll keep speaking out about state politics.
01:14I'm a senator for Tasmania, you can bet your arse I'm going to be.
01:17I'll be holding them accountable like I always have in the past, and always will in the future.
01:21Not satisfied with Mr Ferguson losing the infrastructure portfolio, she wants him stripped
01:26of his other ministerial roles.
01:28This doesn't bring instability to Tasmania, all you're doing is saying, hey listen, you've
01:32been a bad little boy.
01:33You're going to sit on that backbench and think about your actions.
01:36That's called discipline.
01:37I have a great deal of faith and confidence in Michael Ferguson as Treasurer and Deputy
01:43Premier.
01:44Changes to the Cabinet are now official, following a swearing-in at Government House yesterday
01:48afternoon.
01:49But the media wasn't invited.
01:52Premier Jeremy Rockleaf has taken on infrastructure, while Mr Ferguson, who hasn't fronted the
01:57cameras since tendering his resignation, is now in charge of small business and consumer
02:02affairs.