Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will take that interjection. Senator Urquhart says that she thinks that's wrong, but I will read a quote from Ms White, the opposition leader. On the question of minority government in Tasmania, she said in May last year:

Testing your numbers on the floor of the house is a different proposition … We'd reserve our right to make a decision about whether we would …

It sounds pretty clear to me: she's happy to go into the parliament and, as we also saw between 2010 and 2014, do a deal. I remember David Bartlett, the former Labor Premier of Tasmania, stood up before the 2010 election and said that doing a deal with the Greens is like doing a deal with the devil, but straight after the election he did one.