We are keeping track of what Tasmanians are being promised at their state election

Health

Liberals

Labor

• Establish a fund to upgrade regional hospital infrastructure, include 24/7 emergency care for regional and rural hospitals.
• Free university degrees for 150 health workers, to work at local hospital for three years.
• Retain private maternity services in the state’s North-West, conduct a statewide review of maternity services.
• Upgrade six regional ambulance stations.
• Amend Launceston General Hospital (LGH) master plan to include new, additional childcare services.

Greens

• Hire 87 new full-time paramedics by June 2025.
• Recruit 30 new ambulance staff per year for five years, recruit 25 clinical educators and 50 clinical coaches by 2030, fund 10 new positions for psychiatric emergency nurses.
• Six new ambulance stations, upgrade 13 others.
• Establish Mother and Baby Service as community day program and residential stay service.
• Expand public perinatal mental health beds to 12.
• 24/7 on-site radiology and pathology services at the LGH.
• Pill testing at events and festivals, permanent testing facilities.

Housing

Liberals

• Introduce 5 per cent levy on all short stay accommodation (Airbnb, Stayz) listings, to be paid by the visitor.
• 1,500 eligible young Tasmanians to not pay stamp duty on existing homes valued up to $750,000.
• Maintained target of 10,000 new social and affordable homes by 2032.
• Amend Residential Tenancy Act to restrict landlords from refusing tenants who own pets. 
• Offer 100 per cent land tax exemptions for property owners who either build-for-rent or switch a short-stay home to a long-term rental.
• Provide a $200 a week cash incentive and guaranteed rental income for two years to 500 property owners who cap their rents between 25 and 30 per cent of median rate.

Labor

• Expand shared equity scheme.
• Construct 1,000 new rental homes.
• Immediate pause on all new permits for entire home short stay accommodation (Airbnb, Stayz).
• Repair uninhabitable social housing properties.

Greens

• Vacant property levy of 1 per cent – excluding shacks.
• Higher land tax for owners of multi-million-dollar property portfolios.
• Mandatory property disclosure system for transparency about condition of properties at sale.
• End no-cause evictions, strengthen laws to prevent unreasonable rent increases, increased rights for renters to own pets.
• Minimum standards for appliances in rental properties.
• Halve the cost of stamp duty for first home buyers.
• Rooftop solar to all public and social housing.
• Subsidised rooftop solar, double glazing, insulation for low income households.

Cost of living

Liberals

Labor

• Reduce electricity prices by 21.5 per cent, cap price rises to 2.5 per cent through legislation.
• Build 30 new early childhood centres in partnership with the private sector, grants for 20 centres to expand outside school hours – estimated 4,500 additional childcare places.
• Expand childcare services in 50 locations, extend after hours care in 20 locations.
• Allocate $75 million for capital works to add childcare at government-run sites (schools, TAFE, public transport hubs, hospitals).

Greens

• Cap on electricity prices.
• Halve the cost of car registration for concession card holders.

Education

Liberals

Labor

• Expand Ticket to Play program.
• Allow parents to pay for school uniforms on quarterly basis.

Greens

• Free TasTAFE for all Tasmanians.
• Abolish public school levies.
• Employ 195 new teachers.
• Hire 50 school psychologists, 40 social workers, 70 speech pathologists, 30 education support specialists.
• Provide 30 hours of free tutoring for students who fall below national standard in reading, writing, spelling, maths.
• Funding for breakfast programs in all public schools.
• $110 back-to-school supplies grant for children below the poverty line.
• Fully fund Aboriginal education services, make positions permanent.

Jobs

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• Establish the Tasmanian Employment Office to develop Job Guarantee partnerships.

AFL Stadium

Liberals

• Cap government’s contribution to the stadium at $375 million.

Labor

• Renegotiate AFL deal.

Greens

• Does not support an AFL stadium at Macquarie Point.

Infrastructure

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• Supports light rail between Hobart CBD and northern suburbs.
• Extend Derwent ferry network.
• Establish a Department of Public Works – focus on public housing planning.

Transport

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• Free public transport statewide.
• Create a Public Transport Authority.
• Require all new car sales to be electric by 2030, invest in more public charging stations.
• A 50 per cent rebate for electric bike purchases, for 250 students or concession card holders.

Law and order

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• Decriminalise personal drug use.
• Establish a specialist alcohol and drug court.
• Means-based fines, based on the person’s income.
• Make ‘misconduct in public office’ a new offence.
• Raise age of criminal responsibility to 14.
• Introduce targeted violence (hate crime) legislation.

Climate and environment

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• End native forest logging, transition for forestry workers.
• Create a standalone Department of Environment and Water.
• Statewide ban on single-use plastics.
• Target of 10 per cent of Tasmanian waters to be no-take reserves.
• Ban all new fossil fuel projects.

Business

Liberals

Labor

• Rebate scheme to cap power prices for contracted customers at $100/MWh.

Greens

• Increase mining royalties and rents.
• Ban corporations from donation to political parties and candidates.
• Transition fish farm industry to land-based operations, 10 per cent royalty on salmon grown in state-owned waters.

Community

Liberals

• $100,000 to promote Gambling Exclusion Scheme, examine introducing Automatic Responsible Gambling Systems for poker machines, engage with venues for facial recognition technology.
• Plans to implement mandatory card-based pre-commitment technology for poker machines.
• Committed to current Indigenous treaty and truth-telling process.

Labor

• Committed to current Indigenous treaty and truth-telling process.
• Supports plans to implement mandatory card-based pre-commitment technology for poker machines.

Greens

• Ban sexual orientation and gender identity conversion practices.
• Supports a “respectful and effective” model for Indigenous treaty and truth-telling.
• Reform legislation to protect Indigenous heritage, introduce new reserve tenure for land returns.
• Establish Indigenous seats in parliament.
• Commence Indigenous-led process to create memorial to warriors and victims of Frontier Wars.
• Establish LGBTIQA Pride Centre.

Energy

Liberals

Labor

Greens

Tourism

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• Abolish Expressions of Interest process for tourism in state/national parks.

Arts/Ent

Liberals

Labor

Greens

Sport/Rec

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• Ban native duck hunting, greyhound racing and rodeos.

Primary Industries

Liberals

Labor

Greens

• Remove fish farming from Macquarie Harbour.
• Mandatory monitored CCTV in slaughterhouses.
• Phase out factory farming including battery hens, sow stalls.

Miscellaneous

Liberals

• Will attempt to reach agreements with the crossbench if elected in minority – excluding the Greens – but must be on Jeremy Rockliff’s terms.

Labor

• Will not do “deals” with minor parties, including Greens, but will seek support of the parliament to govern in minority.

Greens

• Establish truth in political advertising laws.
• Expand the powers and jurisdiction of the Integrity Commission.
• Cap political donations at $3,000 per donor, per electoral term.
• Introduce a Human Rights Act.