What Tasmanians need now is help with health, housing and the cost of living crisis.
While Premier Jeremy Rockliff has committed a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money to a stadium, people like Stacey Pearce are struggling to make ends meet.
Stacey pays $400 in rent a week for a private rental property even though she has been on the public housing wait list for five years.
She and her husband forgo their own medication, which is just one sacrifice of many they are making because they find it difficult to pay their bills.
With three children and a rental increase due in August, she doesn’t know how she is going to afford to live and feed her family.
The Liberal Government clearly has its priorities wrong. They have been in power for nearly 10 years and if they were going to fix the key issues of health, housing and cost of living, they would have done so by now.
Latest housing dashboard data shows there are 4603 Tasmanians waiting for a place to call home - up from 2771 when the Liberals first came into office – while ABS data shows rents in Tasmanian have risen more than any other state.
A Labor Government will get more homes built by finalising the long-promised planning scheme and will ensure no more homes are lost to short-stay accommodation by placing an immediate pause on any new whole home permits.
Labor will also urgently repair the 215 social and government houses sitting vacant because they are untenantable, giving families a safe place to call home.
Rebecca White MP
Labor Leader
Sarah Lovell MLC
Labor Member for Rumney