What has each political party promised while campaigning for the 2024 Tasmanian election

With promises coming in thick and fast, here’s the one place you’ll find all the pledges from the major parties ahead of the 2024 Tasmanian election >>

Liberal, Labor and Greens make their pitch at the 2024 Tasmanian elections.

The gun has finally been fired and an election is upon us.

It’s a time filled with promises, pledges and commitments to spur people to side with them at the polling booths.

With that, it can be difficult to keep track. So never fear, a full extensive list of election promises are here.

Discover what the Liberal, Labor and The Greens have promised so far.

Liberal

• Police, Fire and Emergency Services Minister Felix Ellis announces there will be no new fire levy.
• Premier Jeremy Rockliff has pledged to cap the cost of the Macquarie Point stadium to taxpayers at $375m.
• Treasurer Michael Ferguson pledges further action on reducing poker machine harm, committing $100,000 to promote awareness of the Gambling Exclusion Scheme.
• Improvements to the West Tamar Highway including a safer pedestrian crossing facility: $50,000 to both Exeter and Scottsdale for pedestrian crossings.
• A five per cent fee on short-stay rental accommodation with around $11 million per annum to go directly to assisting first home-buyers to buy their first home.
• Eligible young Tasmanians to be exempted from paying Stamp Duty on homes valued up to $750,000 _ savings up to $28,935 for up to 1500 households a year.
• A four-year $50,000 funding package for the popular festival Festa Italia.
• Change the laws to allow renters to have a pet.
• Boost the Private Rental Incentive Scheme to unlock an additional 200 rentals that have rents capped at between 25 and 30 per cent below median rates.
• 100 per cent land tax exemptions for property owners who either build-for-rent or switch a short-stay home to rent

Labor

• Roll back recent power price rises and cap future rises to 2.5 per cent. The policy will be funded by Hydro Tasmania’s profits.
• Cap on power prices for contracted business customers to $100/MWh.
• $75m to build 30 new early childhood centres and $1.8m to expand out-of-school hours care at 20 more centres. The plan is intended to create 4,500 additional childcare places.
• $3.5 million to employ an additional 21 new paramedics in regional areas.
• $60 million into regional and district hospital infrastructure
• $28.4 million package to employ more than 200 additional staff – including nurse practitioners, nurses, rural generalists, allied health providers and support positions – across the regional health system.
• 100 per cent land tax exemptions for property owners who either build-for-rent or switch a short-stay home to rent.
• Fund 50 Early Childhood Education degrees through our existing scholarship program policy, and provide a $3 million professional development fund for educators to undertake diploma studies or other relevant short courses.
• In return for access to government buildings, successful early childhood providers will offer above-award pay and conditions to support the retention of quality, professional educational staff.
• Run child care centres through schools in hard-to-staff areas – starting with the West Coast.
• Scrap connection and disconnection fees for residential customers at an estimates cost of $4m a year, to be taken from TasNetworks’ profits

Greens

• Spend $73.9m on ambulance services and hire 87 new full-time paramedics plus a further 30 ambulance staff per year from July 2025 to 2030. Rosalie Woodruff says her party would fund the creation of six new ambulance stations, upgrade 13 others to expand coverage, and increase the size of the ambulance fleet.
• Provide the funding needed to get on with the job and to build the 10,000 homes, around $4.5bln.
• Scrap the Liberals’ EoI process for development inside national parks and the World Heritage area.
• Urge the Liberals and Labor to commit to supporting expanding the powers of the Integrity Commission to cover conduct during an election campaign.
• Back to School Supplies payment of $110 per child per year.
• $10m to the Tasmanian Community Fund.
• Abolish public school levies $17m in the first year, a total of 70m across the forward estimates.
• $110 grant per student for concession card holders for school supplies. $2.7m per year, $10.8m across the forward estimate.
• Put an immediate stop to new whole-home short-stay rentals, and phase out existing listings in residential areas.
• ⁠Halve the cost of car rego for concession cardholders
• Introduce 24/7 onsite radiology and pathology services at the LGH
• ⁠Create 30 new positions for rapid response firefighters at a cost of $14.8 million over four years

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