00:00Casting a ballot to save her own job.
00:06Eva Lawler's seat of Drysdale, shaping up as a key battle on Saturday.
00:10Our electorates are so small, when you have 5-6,000 people in your electorate, you just
00:15need to get out and talk to people.
00:17But you'd be forgiven for thinking she's campaigning against her predecessor's record.
00:23Lear and I I think have done seven debates.
00:25I don't think Gunner did one debate in 2020, and I think he did one debate in 2016.
00:30The Chief Minister at one moment praising Lear Finocchiaro's campaigning, then slamming
00:35her the next.
00:36Lear and the CLP are misleading Territorians, they're lying to Territorians.
00:42Accusations flying over Treasury's costings of the CLP's election commitments, showing
00:47the party plans to make $185 million in savings to fund its promises.
00:54Where's that $185 million going to come from?
00:57Is it going to come from out of the health budget, or the education budget?
01:00It's the two biggest budgets that we have.
01:02A lot of the savings we've identified are around wasteful spending, but also they're
01:07around interstate consultancy fees.
01:10The public sector union saying it has the CLP's commitment in writing.
01:15Government jobs are safe.
01:16If they ultimately take a different pathway forward, then they risk broken promises post-election.
01:22We've been really clear that we need a strong public service to deliver our reform agenda,
01:26and that is why public service jobs are safe.
01:29Treasury's costings of Labor's commitments show the party will push out a budget surplus
01:33by a further two years in order to deliver their promises.
01:38The CLP in contrast says it will deliver a very narrow surplus from next financial year.
01:45But the business community says neither party has taken significant steps to address the
01:50Territory's $11 billion debt pile.
01:53With these estimates that have come out today, the current debt position will be increasing,
01:58and by 2027-28 we'll be paying something like $750 million in interest per annum.
02:05That's more than we spend on police and fire and emergency combined.
02:08Challenges that will have to be confronted for whoever is Treasurer on Monday.
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