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Published: Sun 2 Mar 2014, 4:00pm

Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings has promised Labor will introduce payments for low-income families with school children if the Government is re-elected. Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, elections, tas, australia [Read more]

Published: Sun 2 Mar 2014, 3:55pm

THE Liberals have made more than $1 million more in election promises. [Read more]

Published: Sun 2 Mar 2014, 3:45pm

A LABOR plan to find $165 million in additional budget savings has been rejected as too little, too late by the Liberals. [Read more]

Published: Sun 2 Mar 2014, 3:40pm

A LIBERAL plan to create 5000 jobs during its first term would use a mix of increased spending and continued tax relief. [Read more]

Published: Sun 2 Mar 2014, 3:40pm

TASMANIA will have a new fast and low-cost ferry across Bass Strait if the Palmer United Party wins the upcoming election, PUP Tasmania leader Kevin Morgan announced yesterday. [Read more]

Published: Sun 2 Mar 2014, 2:20pm

The Tasmanian Greens marked Clean Up Australia day by announcing their election commitment to introduce a state-based  Cash for Containers Scheme. [Read more]

Published: Sun 2 Mar 2014, 12:00pm

Tasmania's low-polling Labor Government is preparing to make its pitch for another four years in office. Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten is flying in to officially launch the party's state election campaign in Hobart. [Read more]

Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 11:55pm

THE outcomes of elections are as much about the quality of the party leaders as it is about the policies. [Read more]

Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 11:45pm

ENVIRONMENTAL issues have been critical in Tasmanian elections since the 1989 Labor-Green Accord. [Read more]

Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 11:40pm

OPPOSITION Leader Will Hodgman has pledged $12 mil­lion in infrastructure funding for regional Tasmania. [Read more]