Rosalie Woodruff discusses forming minority government

The Advocate

Rosalie Woodruff reveals the Greens' position on forming minority government with Liberal or Labor.

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00:00 Absolutely, just like a decade under the Liberals, it is a disaster, a mess in so many areas.

00:08 And you know, the Labor Party would be a little bit better, there's no doubt about it, but

00:12 they need to be pushed because they've got big corporates in their ear too.

00:17 And that's the problem when you've got both major parties not disclosing where their donations

00:22 come from.

00:24 We know that they've got big corporations, but we don't know which ones and we don't

00:27 know how much, except we know that the Labor Party only disclosed 2% in the last reporting

00:34 period of where their money comes from.

00:37 Liberals only disclosed 20%.

00:40 So here we are in a situation where the two major parties, they've got the big corporations

00:46 in their ear, and it's not surprising that they're weak on making sure that we make big

00:51 corporations pay their fair share.

00:54 Otherwise how have we got the money to do the things that we need to do?

00:57 Well, assuming there's a minority situation at the end of the election, would the Greens,

01:04 if it becomes an issue, would the Greens be prepared to deal with either of the big parties?

01:11 We really want a new government.

01:13 You know, there's no doubt that the Liberals have made an absolute mess of Tasmania and

01:17 what we can see from the people that they've got standing for them is that they're shifting

01:21 further to the right.

01:23 That means they're ultimately shifting away from ordinary people because they're becoming

01:27 more ideological.

01:28 The moment you become more driven by ideology, you stop listening to people.

01:34 And so that's, you know, for us, it's about our real concerns with where the Liberal Party

01:42 has got to and we really want a new government.

01:45 We want to be working with the crossbench, other independent members, the Labor Party

01:51 to have a change in Tasmania.

01:53 So essentially prepared to work with Labor and the non-Liberals, not prepared to work

01:59 with the Liberals to help them form another government?

02:01 I'm not ruling anything out.

02:03 It's because we've got to respect the will of the people, you know, and we have to respect

02:09 the will of the people.

02:10 But working with, we will always work, we have worked with the Liberal Party now to

02:16 get improvements in this parliament.

02:19 We have got through a piece of legislation, we've got whistleblower reforms, the Greens

02:23 bill, we passed that late last year.

02:27 We got up an ambulance ramping inquiry, the Greens initiated that, I've been sharing it.

02:31 We've made these things happen at the moment.

02:34 So this is what we can do at the moment with only two members.

02:38 We are hoping to fight really hard, but to get change that we know is possible.

02:42 Let me ask that question from a slightly different angle.

02:44 If after the election the Liberals come to the Greens and say, we need some sort of an

02:49 agreement with you, from you, involving you, to be able to govern, what would happen then?

02:56 Well, I'd be listening to the party room and listening to people at Tasmania and saying,

03:03 we want a new government, we want things to be different.

03:06 And so we'll be working really hard to work with the crossbench, the Labor Party, to come

03:12 to an arrangement where we can get real change in Tasmania.

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