Tasmania Heading to an Early Election

Tasmania Heading to an Early Election
Tasmanian Premiere Peter Gutwein, March 13, 2020. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
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Tasmania, the island state in the south of Australia, will head to the polls on May 1, a year sooner than planned, after Speaker Sue Hickey quit the party, plunging the state Liberal government into a minority.
Premier Peter Gutwein on Friday said, “Tasmania can’t afford the uncertainty of minority government. Now more than ever, we need a strong, stable majority government.”