General
Sue Hickey’s time as a Tasmanian Liberal MP not without controversy
Tasmanian Liberal Speaker Sue Hickey posed problems for the state government from the moment she walked through Parliament’s front doors in 2018.
Key points:
- Sue Hickey says she has been “effectively sacked” from the Tasmanian Liberal Party
- She has announced she will run in the next state election as an independent
- She says she is “grateful to the Premier for liberating me from the Liberals”
A government backbencher for all of 10 minutes, Ms Hickey barely hesitated when nominated by opposition parties to become Speaker of the House of Assembly.
Within the day, she had promised to vote on government bills “on their merit,” and was thus installed as a permanent headache for her party.
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