While Tasmania only has five of the 150 seats in parliament, the state could prove critical to the final election results. It will come down to which party has the policies and candidates that voters feel matched their priorities.
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00:00From one side of the state to the other, Tasmanians have diverse views about what matters most.
00:09It's definitely issues with cost of living for houses.
00:13Our healthcare needs improving.
00:17Fish farms, I don't want it here. I'm dead against it.
00:20Like with the bulk billing, I think with the doctor's surgery it's very hard to get in.
00:24Number one is the spiritual needs of people.
00:27Reducing the cost of healthcare to increase accessibility.
00:30Housing, jobs and education, they're always the three main staples.
00:34With the election campaign now officially underway, the major parties are pulling out the placards and rolling out the slogans.
00:42It's a clear choice between Labor and building Tasmania's future, or Peter Dutton who will cut services and make Tasmanians pay.
00:51Their budget is nothing more than a plan for the next five weeks, not for the next five years.
00:57In contrast, a coalition-led government would get Australia back on track.
01:02Put us into balance of power, we will keep Peter Dutton out and we will make Labor into a more progressive, fairer government.
01:10The most marginal seat in the state is Lyons where the two main candidates are a former state Labor leader and the chief executive of an economic development group.
01:20I understand what our community needs and they need a strong voice who's got experience to represent them in Canberra and I can deliver on that.
01:27People are looking for something a little bit different, someone with real life experience that's actually had a career outside of politics
01:34and actually knows what it's like to struggle and to not come from what I call a silver spoon environment.
01:41An early taste of the personal and political battles set to play out over the next five weeks.
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