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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