Terrific observations, Kate Crowley.

Question is, will the Libs learn that it is the environment which sustains the economy, not vice-versa?

It is going to be a very interesting ride, if not a little bumpy.

With the rising of the Sun, Kate suddenly awakened. She had been having such a lovely dream..............

"How will it go", probably very badly. The red/greens are communists to the core. How they could ever work with a conservative government is beyond all logic. Far more likely is a liberal/labour coalition.

An interesting and well-informed article. It will indeed be interesting to see how the Liberals and Greens work out their power sharing arrangement in Tasmania. Hopefully the Liberals will be a little more intelligent and honest than the ALP were under the previous 'accord'. As it stands, it looks like it will be quite some time before Labor governs again in Tasmania, if ever.

Formersnag, why do you think the Greens are "communists"? Have you read their policies? Do you actually know what communism is?

On March 20, the Tasmanian and South Australian governments faced election; in both States the major parties polled a shade under 80%, and the minor parties and independents a bit more than 20%. Yet in South Australia a majority government was elected, in Tasmania a hung parliament of 10, 10 and 5. The Greens won five due to the complex Hare Clark preferential voting system for multi member electorates.

Prior to the election the Premier David Bartlett, had said that in the event no party held a majority, then government should be formed by the party winning the most seats. When challenged he indicated that government should go to the party winning the most votes if the number of seats were the same. As the Liberals won by a margin of 2% of the vote, David Bartlett is honouring his promise and will resign and advise the Governor to appoint the Liberals.

Keeping of a political promise of this magnitude should be applauded. It is rare in today’s politics.

The Liberal leader, Will Hodgman, has responded by committing his party not to enter into any shady backroom deals but to test his support on the floor of the House in a completely open and transparent manner.
He has ruled out any negotiated deal with the greens such as the flawed Labor Green accord that cost Tasmania so much in the early 1990’s, that was engineered by a shady backroom deal.

If the political leaders of the Greens honour their promises to not block supply and not to support a vote of no confidence, then Tasmania should have stable government, regardless of a poll commissioned by the political activist group Get Up, who spent over $140,000 on political advertising for the Tasmanian election in a bid to influence its outcome.

Part of this campaign included a full page advertisement of 26 UTAS academics urging a change in governance based upon an opinion poll, so it is ironical that this article advocates for another shady back room deal, ‘a negotiated agreement’, based on yet another opinion poll.

The Greens did well and I say good on them .
Some of their idea's are progressive but unfortunately they seem to have an unfortunate contempt for the other side .
Confrontation sadly is their mantra , they easily forget that a lot of people voted and rely on individuals voted into Govt , they will serve themselves well not to exhibit so much bile and temper down some of the things they get fanatical about .
No doubt the Libs will be found writhing in pain many times in the next 3 years , who knows they might convert their captive Libs into Banning Everything !