Jim Chalmers urges vote for Dean Winter to reject ‘waste, debt and bigger deficits’
Labor Party faithfuls will gather to hear the keynote address from federal treasurer Jim Chalmers at its campaign launch. What he will say.
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Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers, on a high after Labor’s federal election success in Tasmania, will today urge a vote for Dean Winter to ensure the state has a strong economic future.
In his speech to the party faithful in the northwest, Mr Chalmers will point out what the federal government has achieved and argue that a strong Labor state government could achieve even more for Tasmanians.
“We could do even more for the people of this state if we had a Tasmanian Labor government to work with,” Mr Chalmers says.
“The Liberals here aren’t just out of touch or out of ideas they’re utterly out of their depth.
“The Liberal waste, the overruns and the blowouts are costing Tasmanians dearly.
“They’ve added more than $13bn in Liberal Tasmanian debt while we’ve reduced federal Liberal debt by $170bn.
“They’re now trying to stack on more risk with their shonky insurance scheme – slammed by experts and economists.
“This is the Liberal legacy laid bare: waste and rorts, more debt and bigger deficits.”
Tasmanians, he said, had rejected planned federal Liberal cuts at the May federal election and a vote for Labor at Saturday’s election was a vote for “your future”.
Mr Chalmers said Tasmanians were now earning $5000 more on average than they would have “if the same wage suppression of the Liberals had gone on”.
“This election is a big chance to reject State Liberal waste and rorts, cuts and chaos and economic mismanagement.
“From what I see and hear at global economic forums and in the expert advice I sift through every day Tasmania has what the world wants. What the country needs. And what the future demands.”
Mr Chalmers said Tasmania offered much to offer in new technology, clean energy, tourism agriculture and manufacturing but above all “the ingenuity, resilience and decency of your people”.
“And we can’t grow our national economy in the right way – more and better jobs, more productive, more resilient – without a bigger role for this island,” he said.
“Instead, you have a Liberal government, bumbling and stumbling from one stuff up to the next.
“Dean is practical and pragmatic, passionate and compassionate – and he’s got vision.
“A vision for jobs and the economy, and the discipline to clean up the mess.
“I know him, I believe in him, I want to work with him – for you”
“And Tasmania needs a Premier with the vision to see the future – and the determination to seize it too.”
Mr Chalmers will pay tribute to federal Labor MPs and Senators elected at the May federal election which saw the loss of two Liberal seats.
He will also outline how the Albanese government brought down inflation and reduced debt while still delivering “fairer and broader” tax cuts, energy bill relief and extra funding for schools and housing.
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