High profile candidates jostle for Tasmania's election seats

An election has been called in Tasmania, with Premier Jeremy Rockliff announcing a March 23 poll. Video via AAP.

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00:00 I've just returned from visiting the Governor who has accepted my advice that the House

00:06 of Assembly be dissolved and that a general election be held on Saturday the 23rd of March.

00:13 Labor's been in opposition for a decade. The truth is Labor and Ms White still haven't

00:21 learned the lessons from the disastrous deal with the Greens.

00:25 And it'll be the third election campaign in six years for Tasmanians who've been sent

00:29 to the polls again by a Liberal government that's failed to deliver stability and failed

00:34 to deliver on its promises to the Tasmanian people.