Economy
Swing … but Libs triumph. Tassie backs the wrong horse, ERIC bites the dust, RICHARD rises …
*Pic: ABC of Andrew Hastie (right) and Labor’s Matthew Keogh …
Follow the Guardian’s Live Bog on the Canning by-election here
• Or follow Dr Kevin Bonham’s analysis here …
• Nick Clark, Mercury: Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension marks a seismic shift in the Tasmanian power base … Tasmanian MPs have been staunchly behind former Prime Minister Tony Abbott since the 2013 election. Not only did four senators and the so-called “three amigos” — Mr Nikolic, Brett Whiteley and Eric Hutchinson — unanimously vote against a spill motion in February, Mr Abbott’s “near death experience”, but they spoke strongly against it. … The Turnbull win threw a scare into the Tasmanian division, which realised that, apart from Senator Richard Colbeck, it had backed the wrong horse.
EARLIER on Tasmanian Times: • Classy Tasmanian MPs’ acts …
• GUARDIAN LIVE: Eric Abetz is dumped as leader of the government in the Senate. George Brandis gets that gig.
• Richard Colbeck: Ministry Appointment for Senator Richard Colbeck
• Will Hodgman: Tasmania raring to work with new federal Cabinet
• Politically Homeless: The right balance The Liberal right are convinced they can trash the Turnbull government in the same way that they trashed the Rudd and Gillard governments. They might just be able to do it, but if they do the Libral Party forfeits its position as a party of government.