Cricket Australia's sacking of Angela Williamson, who used Twitter to criticise Tasmanian Government policy on abortion, sparked condemnation across the country and even captured headlines overseas.

Lawyers for Ms Williamson and Cricket Australia have today failed to reach a resolution over the matter at a Fair Work Commission hearing, where her team argued she was sacked because of a political opinion, and that it was a breach of the Fair Work Act.

The fallout from her dismissal has been a public relations disaster for Cricket Australia with 34,000 people so far signing a petition in support of Ms Williamson.

It has also caused significant headaches for Tasmania's Liberal Government.

Ms Williamson, who was employed as a government relations officer, has alleged that before her dismissal the state's anti-abortion health minister, Michael Ferguson, told Cricket Tasmania she'd had an abortion.

It's an allegation Mr Ferguson hasn't denied, despite being repeatedly asked by reporters and the Opposition.

Instead, the Health Minister has repeatedly only clarified that he did not speak about anything that was not already "on the public record".

Premier Will Hodgman has stood by his Health Minister. ( ABC News: Rhiana Whitson )

Like the Premier, Mr Ferguson has repeatedly said that he did not attempt to influence the employment decisions of Cricket Australia.

What is clear is that Ms Williamson's name and that she'd had an abortion had not been published in the media when the Cricket Tasmania CEO Nick Cummins called Mr Ferguson to apologise for Ms Williamson's tweets on the weekend of June 17.

Ms Williamson had confided in Premier Will Hodgman about her termination.

Mr Hodgman has said the Government did not act improperly and had not discussed "any private material or anything that wasn't in the public domain".

The backstory

In March, the ABC revealed a senior adviser to Mr Hodgman took screenshots of Angela Williamson's tweets that criticised the Government's abortion policy and sent them to Cricket Tasmania in an attempt to have her reprimanded.

At the time, the ABC kept Ms Williamson's identity and employer hidden at her request because she did not want to politicise her role.

Labor's call for a police investigation into Mr Ferguson's role in the saga failed. ( ABC News: Laura Beavis )

Ms Williamson is also a former staffer to the Premier, and had sent a text message to him at the time, and disclosed that she herself had been forced to travel to Melbourne to have a termination.

On June 7, Ms Williamson has told the ABC she finally met with the Premier to lobby for better access to abortion services.

But when a Labor motion to compel the Health Minister to allow full public access to abortions in the public hospital system failed to pass the Lower House in its original form, Ms Williamson took to Twitter venting her dismay.

Mr Cummins was worried about the tweets and said he called Mr Ferguson to apologise.

Ten days later Ms Williamson was sacked.

In her termination letter, Cricket Australia said she had breached the social media policy and no longer had the support of Cricket Tasmania.

"While Cricket Australia has no issue with you using your political beliefs, the disparaging tone which you have used in your tweets and in the 14 June tweet in particular regarding a member of parliament is of significant concern," the termination letter said.

The letter continued to state that due to Cricket Tasmania's withdrawal of support for Ms Williamson her position was untenable.

Questions remain

In Tasmania, the circles of power and influences are often closely linked.

At a press conference, Mr Hodgman was asked whether, perhaps due to his personal connections, some board members had discussed Ms Williamson over a beer.

It was a question he laughed off.

"No I am very clear, of what has taken place, or not in this case," he said.

Later, the Government sent out a press release insisting it had always had a good working relationship with Ms Williamson — which then still leaves the question: precisely why did Cricket Australia sack her?

Tasmania's Opposition has seized on the Angela Williamson saga, holding almost daily press conferences, unsuccessfully calling for a police investigation into Michael Ferguson, and suggesting he may have broken the ministerial code of conduct.

The Liberals have labelled Labor's efforts as stunts and a "politically motivated witch hunt".

But if an outcome through Fair Work can't be reached, her lawyers have 14 days to take the matter to the Federal Court.

And that's when, her lawyers say, exactly who said what to whom in the lead-up to her sacking would be forensically examined.

Regardless of any legal proceedings, though, the timeline of events is awkward for the Hodgman Government:

The facts are that a senior staffer of the Premier tried to get Ms Williamson reprimanded over her tweets on abortion, and months later she was sacked after a conversation between her employer and a senior government minister.

At the very least, it's a very bad look.

What was in the 'public domain'?

Three hours after this piece was published, Mr Ferguson issued a lengthy press release in which he appeared to admit discussing Angela Williamson's abortion with Mr Cummins.

He said he was aware of the following tweet before he spoke to Cricket Tasmania:

"So you share your story, hoping it convinces the gov to act urgently & 5 months later – NOTHING. NO meeting with Premier. NO results. Thanks for helping tell it as it is @ginarush @rhianawhitson @susanfahey @chelobyrne @jacquieo75 @samanthamaiden @sallyrugg #auspol #politas"

He said he also was aware of an article linked to in the above tweet told the story of a Tasmanian forced to travel to Melbourne for an abortion.

He was also aware that in a follow-up article the woman was revealed as a former staffer to the Premier.

The articles did not name Ms Williamson or Cricket Tasmania.

"I am not sure how I can be accused by Labor of 'disclosing' private information which was made public on Twitter," Mr Ferguson said.

Ms Williamson maintains that her name and abortion were not in the public domain, and that Cricket Tasmania had not been aware she had had the procedure.