Tasmanian election: Keep track of the key promises made by the parties

Updated February 05, 2018 08:21:11

Struggling to stay on top of all the campaign promises? Well, here are the key ones all in one spot. But wait — there's bound to be more. So watch this space.

Health

Liberal

• TBA

Labor

• $560 million health plan, including the employment of 500 additional health professionals
• Free hospital buses for West Coast residents to access health care as part of a two-year trial
• Introduce "medihotels" to patients who no longer need an inpatient bed
• Create a Launceston health precinct
• 20 new child safety officers

Greens

• Introduce a medicinal cannabis registration scheme to allow registered users and personal cultivators of medicinal cannabis to be quarantined from criminal prosecution

JLN

• Let GPs decide which patients can grow, produce or possess appropriate quantities of medicinal cannabis

Education

Liberal

• Extend every high school to year 12 by 2022
• $20 million upgrade to Cosgrove High School
• $22 million upgrade of Sorell School
• $20 million to redevelop Penguin District School

Labor

• Free school bus travel

Jobs

Liberal

• $2.5 million for small business grants to support apprentices and trainees
• $190 million hardwood mill plant for Burnie (221 jobs)
• Extend the payroll tax rebate scheme for apprentices and trainees

Labor

• Set up industry advisory councils
• $4.5 million for a Northern Regional Development office

Housing

Liberal

• $125 million for an affordable housing strategy, including the construction of 1,500 new affordable homes

Labor

• $106 million for an affordable housing strategy with 900 new homes to be built

Greens

• Allocate an extra $40 million to the Housing Fund

Infrastructure

Liberal

• $92.5 million on transport infrastructure in Launceston and Tamar Valley
• $57 million to upgrade the Tasman Highway in the southeast
• $70 million towards the third tranche of irrigation schemes

Labor

• $7.5 million towards investment in electric vehicles
• $60 million for a community roads package

Law and order

Liberal

• 125 more police officers over four years
• Introduce mandatory jail time for child sex offences
• $340 million to build a prison in the state's north and a remand centre in the south
• Keep the Ashley Youth Detention Centre open

Labor

• Recruit 31 more police officers in first term and fund three new police dogs
• Strengthen the penalties for child sex offences

Community

Liberal

• Keep poker machines in pubs and clubs for 20 years from 2023
• $10 million to upgrade sport facilities for girls and women

Labor

• Build six new child and family centres across the state
• Remove poker machines from pubs and clubs by 2023
• $5 million to upgrade sporting facilities for women

Greens

• Legislate to remove poker machines from pubs and clubs
• Introduce a Charter of Human Rights

JLN

• Remove poker machines from pubs and clubs

Tourism

Liberal

• $72 million to improve tourism roads
• $30 million for a cableway at Cradle Mountain

Labor

• $30 million for a cableway at Cradle Mountain
• $23 million for regional tourism infrastructure

Greens

• $40 million to employ rangers and scientists to work in the state's parks and reserves

First posted February 05, 2018 07:58:43