00:00REBECCA WHITE WANTS TO JUMP TO FEDERAL POLITICS
00:05This campaign will be won by the margin of our effort.
00:08We'll have to work incredibly hard every single day.
00:11AFTER 14 YEARS REPRESENTING LYONS IN STATE PARLIAMENT,
00:14SHE WANTS TO BE THE FEDERAL MEMBER.
00:17WHILE MS WHITE DID LOSE THREE ELECTIONS IN 2018, 21 AND 24,
00:22SHE WAS THE HIGHEST VOTE GETTER IN THE LYONS ELECTORATE EACH TIME.
00:26THAT POPULARITY SEEING HER REPLACE INCUMBENT BRYAN MITCHELL
00:30AND TAKE ON THE TASK OF BEATING LIBERAL CANDIDATE SUSIE BAUER.
00:34I believe very clearly that Rebecca is a future cabinet minister from Tasmania.
00:40THE PM'S TASSIE TOUR TARGETING TWO ISSUES,
00:43ANNOUNCING IMMEDIATE FUNDING OF $150 MILLION FOR THE SOUTHEAST IRRIGATION SCHEME
00:48JUST DAYS AFTER LIBERAL LEADER PETER DUTTON MADE IT AN ELECTION PROMISE.
00:53It provides our farmers with the water they need to continue to grow some of Tasmania's great produce.
00:59AND WITH SALMON FARMING STILL A DIVISIVE ISSUE,
01:03THERE'S $28 MILLION FOR IMPROVING OXYGEN LEVELS IN MCQUARRIE HARBOUR
01:07AND MORE JEANS SKATE CAPTIVE BREEDING.
01:10We want jobs and we want sustainability.
01:13It's not either or, it's a matter of how we achieve both.
01:17AS THE ENVIRONMENT MINISTER CONSIDERS THE FUTURE OF AQUACULTURE IN THE HARBOUR.
01:21Today's visit by the Prime Minister has not brought what Tasmania needed
01:25and that was certainty around the future of our salmon industry.
01:28This is a naked play to win a seat in Braddon
01:31and the price that's going to be paid is the extinction of an ancient species.
01:36WITH TANYA PLEBISSEK'S PROLONGED INDECISION POSING A POLITICAL PROBLEM IN BRADDON,
01:41SITTING SENATOR AND SALMON FARMING SUPPORTER ANNE URQUHART'S NOMINATING TO RUN FOR THE LOWER HOUSE SEAT.
01:48I fight and I will continue to fight for jobs and manufacturing right across this electorate.
01:53IF THEIR CANDIDACIES ARE CONFIRMED, ANNE URQUHART AND REBECCA WHITE
01:57WOULD RESIGN FROM THEIR CURRENT ROLES WHEN THE NEXT FEDERAL ELECTION IS CALLED.
02:01THERE'D BE A CASUAL VACANCY IN THE SENATE,
02:04LIKELY TO BE FILLED BY A MEMBER OF THE PARTY'S LEFT FACTION,
02:07WHILE THERE'D BE A RECOUNT IN THE STATE SEAT OF LIONS.
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