Major party leaders make final pitch to lead the state before Tasmanians head to the ballot

ABC NEWS (Australia)

On the final day of campaigning the major party leaders made a final pitch for why their party should lead the Tasmania. But as Josh Duggan explains a large proportion of enrolled Tasmanians have already casted their votes before polling day.

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00:00All the polls predict a tight race but one of Bonnarong's residents had no

00:07trouble making up its mind. Christopher has gone for Dean Winter. It's the

00:12election Tasmanians weren't expecting, can hardly afford and don't want. Definitely

00:17getting sick of elections. I'm not keen I think we've been a bit over-electioned.

00:21As of Thursday a quarter of the state's electors had cast their ballot. More than

00:26114,000 mines made up already. I pretty much voted how I did last time. I'm

00:32leaning away from Labor and Liberal and stuff at the moment. I feel like, it feels

00:36like they're the same party now. Tassie needs Jeremy Rockliffe to keep going the

00:41way he is. Stadium was a very big thing. If we can't afford it, we can't afford it.

00:46Campaign promises won some over. The Tassie dog thing I thought was pretty cool.

00:50But many others were unenthused. I mean not that there was much to find out. At the

00:56end of a campaign that hasn't always sizzled, the Labor leader thanked

01:00volunteers with breakfast. Confident his health focused promises can be a winner.

01:06Tasmanians want better access to health care services. And still backing his

01:10decision to bring on the no confidence motion that triggered this election.

01:14We had to stand up and we will always stand up for Tasmanians who want a

01:18sustainable budget. Who didn't want a Liberal government to sell their assets and

01:22who didn't want a Liberal government who left our spirits on the wrong side of the world.

01:25Flanked by two of his star candidates, the farmer turned Premier spent the day in

01:30his natural habitat. Agriculture of course is a key strength of our economy and that's

01:37why we're very proud to always back our farmers, always back our miners, always back

01:42our salmon farmers. Hoping to cling on to power and still blaming Labor for the early poll.

01:48The last parliament was working too well for Dean Winter and that's why he forced an election

01:54in unity with the Tasmanian Greens. On the site of the stadium they hope to prevent, the Greens are

02:01hoping to hold the balance of power. Door after door, on every day of this election campaign we've

02:07heard loud and clear that Tasmanians overwhelmingly do not want a new stadium at Macquarie Point. Both major

02:13parties claim they'll save more than they've spent on election promises. Each says the

02:18others figures are rubbery. Neither prepared to look at any new revenue sources to dig the state

02:25out of its budget hole.

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