But the Labor and Liberal parties are not prepared to negotiate their policies and Premier David Bartlett announced he would resign as Premier in the event Labor wins fewer seats than the Liberals in a hung parliament - a likely outcome according to the most recent opinion poll.

At The Examiner State Leaders Debate last night, the three leaders had the opportunity to question each other on the topic of minority government.

Mr Bartlett used his question to Opposition Leader Will Hodgman to ridicule the former's policy to provide a $2500 bounty to young people in eligible occupations and their families to relocate to Tasmania.

"Would this scheme of paying people from another state to take Tasmanian jobs be one of the things that you would negotiate away?" Mr Bartlett asked.

Mr Hodgman accused the Premier of turning the policy "into a farce".

He said he would not negotiate away any Liberal policy commitments and that his party would "not do deals".

Mr Bartlett chose to ask Mr McKim why he did not agree that the party with the most seats in the House of Assembly should be the party to form government.

Mr McKim said the Greens would not adopt a "my way or the highway approach".

That approach was also apparent in Mr McKim's answer to a question from the Opposition Leader, who asked which of the Greens' policies were up for negotiation and which were non- negotiable.

"People enter negotiations in good faith, not by making ultimatums or demands," he said.

"We're not going to say that all of our policies are ultimatum-based."

Mr Hodgman also asked Mr Bartlett to elaborate on his stance that the party with the most seats in a hung parliament should form government.

"In the event of a hung parliament will you resign as Premier if you have fewer seats than us?" he said.