Bridget Archer elected to Bass

Bridget Archer fronts the media at the Liberal campaign headquarters during the 2025 Tasmanian election.

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00:00A few tears before, are they different tears of the peers you had back in May?

00:03They're a bit less ugly than they were in May.

00:06You know, I am so proud to be part of this team

00:09and it's been fantastic the last six weeks to get out right across our electorate

00:15and to talk to Tasmanians about the issues that are important to them.

00:20It's the very thing that has driven me forward for 15 years, you know, in public life.

00:26It is such a privilege to be able to serve the people of Bass

00:30and to be able to have the opportunity to continue to do that.

00:34It's the greatest privilege of my life.

00:35It's impossible to say that everything's perfect at the moment in the state.

00:38Economic management is also a concern.

00:41That'll be a focus for you, no doubt, as well?

00:43Of course it is a focus going forward,

00:45but I think it is also incumbent to look at how far that we have come.

00:49How far Tasmania has come in the last 10 years.

00:53And I go back to when I joined the Liberal Party,

00:56which was in the wake of the last Labor-Greens government

00:59and the destruction that was wreaked across northern Tasmania

01:02and communities like Georgetown, where I live, and across the northeast.

01:06Some of those communities that have only been recovering, you know,

01:08in the last few years from that.

01:11This government, over 10 years, has done so much in Tasmania,

01:17has brought so much progress to Tasmania,

01:20and we shouldn't lose sight of that.

01:22It's easy to lose sight of that.

01:24Of course there is more to be done.

01:26There is always more to be done,

01:28and we must dig in and, with resolve, move forward.

01:31But we shouldn't lose sight of where we have come from

01:33and the progress that has been made to date.

01:37And it's important to build on that

01:38and to continue to keep that momentum going

01:40and to keep moving forward.

01:42Thank you, of course, to the people who voted for me,

01:45but also thank you to the people who might not have voted for me

01:50and I give you my undertaking

01:52that I will do my very best to represent you

01:55whether you have voted for me or not.

01:58That has been my promise since the very first time I was ever elected

02:02and that is my promise to people going forward

02:05that I will continue to try and do everything I can

02:07to be a genuine and authentic representative for you

02:10to put the best interests of Tasmanians first.