It is the third election loss for the party under Rebecca White's leadership. The ABC understands a decision was made at a state administrative committee meeting today to concede the election and declare the leadership vacant.
Tasmanian Labor has declared it has lost the state election and will not attempt to form a minority government.
Premier Jeremy Rockliff has already reached out to the Jacqui Lambie Network and independents who are likely to be elected.The 'victory' speech despite no victory and other oddities of Tasmania's election nightIf we taxed land properly, we'd have billions of extra dollars to fund big tax cuts elsewhere. So why don't we do it?
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