Tasmania votes 2025: Liberals promise new breast screening clinics, Labor on stamp duty

The Liberal Party has targeted women’s health on the campaign trail with party leader Jeremy Rockliff promising four new BreastScreen clinics. Here’s where they would go.

Premier Jeremy Rockliff, with Devonport mayor Alison Jarman and Braddon candidate Giovanna Simpson, has announced four more breast screening clinics.

A re-elected Liberal government would deliver four new BreastScreen clinics across Tasmania, party leader Jeremy Rockliff said on Monday.

The new clinics would be at Kingborough, Devonport, Triabunna and Glenorchy, providing free breast screening for eligible Tasmanians, prioritising those aged 50 to 74.

They will compliment the permanent clinics already operating in Hobart, Rosny Park and Launceston, along with mobile units that visit rural and remote locations.

Mr Rockliff said the fit-out of our brand new $15 million Tasmanian Breast Care Centre at the Royal Hobart Hospital’s Liverpool Street Clinics would get underway next month.

He said the Tasmanian Liberal Government was “getting on with the job”, ensuring women have access to high-quality health care and critical preventive screening.

“We know that early detection of breast cancer significantly increases the chance of recovery and survival,” he said.

“These four new clinics will ensure more women can access these important services, when and where they need them.

“Just yesterday, we announced funding to expand women’s health services in Launceston, reducing the need for women and girls to travel to get the health care they need.

“We have a plan to boost women’s healthcare right across Tasmania, and it’s working.”

Premier Jeremy Rockliff has announced four more breast screening clinics.

Mr Rockliff said the Liberals were campaigning hard for majority government.

“What Tasmanians want is a government that gets on with a job.

“They do not want any more political games.

“We were forced to an election by Dean Winter, an election that Tasmanians did not want, an election that was forced and the budget blocked, and that is not responsible.”

He did not address a question about the announcement of new independent and minor party candidates.

“I wish people well, but the best way that we can stop the political games and the chaos that has been created around Dean Winter forcing an election is through a majority Liberal government.”

Labor’s stamp duty pledge

Dean Winter announces stamp duty relief for first home buyers.

Labor will extend the concessions of stamp duty for first home buyers if it wins office at next month’s state election, Opposition leader Dean Winter says.

Mr Winter said the current concessions were not doing enough to help people buy new homes — and the state’s construction industry was in need of a boost.

“One of the big problems and challenges we’ve got is too many young people are leaving the state — on average, every four days, a plane load of young Tasmanians is flying off to the mainland.

“One of the big challenges is cost of living and the cost of getting into the housing market.

“Our announcement today is that those stamp duty concessions for the next 12 months will extend out to building new homes for people to purchase a new home.

“This means that people will be able to access up to $30,000 in stamp duty relief for purchases of new homes, up to $750,000 which is a difference between building a new home and not.”

The state government currently offers an exemption from stamp duty for first home buyers on established properties of $750.000 or less.

Labor’s policy extends that to new builds.

“The challenge for Tasmania is to get more homes in the ground, and over the course of the last few months, we’ve seen some of the worst building stats Tasmania has seen in decades,”

Rebecca Ellston from the Property Council said.

“Any steps to alleviate the financial burden and remove those roadblocks of getting someone into their first home is very welcome for the industry,” she said.

“At the moment, we’ve got an industry that is really slowing up.

“We’ve got members out there who have gone from selling around 106 blocks a year to six blocks a year.

“So this sort of incentive will really help stimulate that economy.”

Premier Jeremy Rockliff said his party was working hard to get more Tasmania's into homes of their own.

“It’s demonstrated by our commitment to working with housing providers, our commitment to affordable housing, our commitment to building 10,000 homes by 2032,” he said,

“We’re stamping out stamp duty which has supported many, many young Tasmanians into their first home, fixing the planning system, making it easier.”

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