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A Hodgman Liberal Government will provide the real change Flinders Island needs with up to $6.4 million to fix shipping, improve port facilities, further develop renewable energy options and importantly, assist the island to further develop and market the Flinders Island brand.

Labor has failed the Flinders Island community over almost 12 years in government. Most recently, the debacle surrounding the Flinders Island shipping service highlights Labor’s ineptitude and lack of interest in the people of Flinders Island. …

What the Tasmanian Liberals will do:

A Hodgman Liberal Government will provide $11.5 million to the Launceston Flood Authority for urgent and essential works to complete the works on the Lindsay Street Levee re-alignment.

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What the Tasmanian Liberals will do:

Invest $9.5 million in the economic and environmental future of Northern Tasmania by tackling the major and continuing silt problem in the Tamar River and establishing a single state authority to manage Tamar River and the Esk River catchments into the future.

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Today in a major speech to the Launceston business community I again emphasised that a Hodgman Liberal Government will support the NBN roll-out in Tasmania. …

Tasmanian roads are the most deadly in Australia. Think about that for a moment: “The most deadly roads in Australia”. The national road fatality rate for 2008 was 6.85 deaths per 100,000 people. In Tasmania last year the rate was 12.8 deaths per 100,000 people. That’s almost double. …

The Tasmanian Liberals today announced their four-point plan to fix Labor’s water and sewerage bungle, if elected to Government on March 20, 2010. Leader of the Opposition, Will Hodgman, said that the Liberal policy included freezing prices for consumers while the water and sewerage bungle was fixed, as well as providing financial incentives to empower Tasmanians to invest in practical water savings initiatives.
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Latest video – road safety; renewable energy…. …

• Labor’s first Dorothy Dixer after winter break all about post-election speculation
• Greens’ first questions about hypothetical post election scenarios
• Liberals focus on the Midland Highway, road safety, the budget and water and sewerage reforms and urge our opponents to focus on the issues that matter, and the leadership and vision for the future that Tasmania so sorely needs

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Latest video – the numbers speak for themselves…. …

The Midland Highway is starting to seriously crack up.  I drove it twice last weekend and saw if for myself. 

It really is becoming a messy safety risk. …