Anthony Albanese continues election campaign in Tasmania

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has travelled south to Tasmania where he'll begin today campaigning in Hobart.

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00:00The Prime Minister is on the Hustings in Tasmania today, campaigning in the contested

00:06electoral territory of Lyons, but on comfortable ground for Labor, an urgent care clinic.

00:11Their pitch, Labor's health investments, are helping take pressure of hospitals and easing

00:15the cost burden for families, a practical promise in a place where practical politics

00:20matters.

00:21We promised 50, we've delivered 87 and we're going to deliver another 50.

00:27And they have been an enormous success.

00:30Across the country, some 1.3 million Australians have got the care they need, when they need

00:36it, with just this little bit of green and gold plastic here, their Medicare card.

00:42Lyons is sprawling diverse and on a margin of less than 1%, one of the most marginal seats

00:47in the country.

00:49Labor's held it since 2016, but with Brian Mitchell retiring, suddenly becoming a real contest.

00:55Former state Labor leader Rebecca White is hoping to hold the line for Labor, but Liberal challenger

00:59Susie Bower is making a strong push.

01:02While today's setting is health, the wider tension in Tasmania is between regional jobs

01:06and environmental politics.

01:08Just yesterday, the PM announced funding for the Boya paper mill, promising lower emissions

01:13and more jobs.

01:14It's part of a broader effort to convince voters Labor can support both workers and the environment,

01:19at a time when Greens and Independents are applying real pressure, especially in city seats.

01:24Australia offers five federal seats, and with three of them in play, this island state

01:29could have an outsized influence on the national result.

01:31There is a very big country, and the majority of countries have been involved in British Americans.

01:36There are less than 1 of them in the country, and they are playing real pressure.

01:37There is also an area of water.

01:38The only thing is now coming to the company of the country where the force of the country is

01:40is not always going to be interested.

01:41At a time when Greens andachte Press, there are many states levels in the country, but you can still be

01:43on the right train of Alternativa, but you don't want to follow the country's

01:45Department of Education on the State of the National State of the National Institute or the National Institute,

01:46so the greater bound to the country for the country.

01:47There are many states, sorry, but you can come to the country of the country.