Greens remove support for Labor's no-confidence motion

Greens leader Rosalie Woodruff says her party will not back Labor’s planned no-confidence motion "at this stage" when parliament returns on August 19.

Dr Woodruff met with Opposition Leader Dean Winter on Tuesday morning for the second time in several days to discuss the possibility of a Labor minority government.

“Dean Winter has shown no capacity or intention to negotiate in serious good faith with us and make policy compromises on the issues that we promise Tasmanians we fight for,” she said.

“So at this stage, we cannot have any confidence in the proposed motion to make Dean Winter, the premier of Tasmania, in Parliament next week, at this stage, the proposed motion in Parliament next week.

“We will not be able to support the motion of confidence in Dean Winter, as the Labor Premier.”

Both major parties have been negotiating with the Greens and the crossbench ahead of the planned no-confidence motion.

The Liberals announced over the weekend that it would phase out greyhound racing and abandoned plans to open up 40,000ha of protected forests for logging.

Meanwhile, Labor says that if it forms government it will install Independent MLC Ruth Forrest as Treasurer.