Building your future buildingyourfuture.com.au Building your future Elective Surgery Today, after three and a half years of majority Liberal Government, Tasmania is Where we • Waiting lists reduced by 36% since June 2014 Tasmania is heading in the right direction. More Tasmanians than ever are in • Now 5,453 Tasmanians waiting for elective surgery work, with over 10,000 new jobs created since the election. are today • Down from 8,528 in June 2014. heading in the Our hospital elective surgery waiting lists are at record lows and we’ve right direction Unemployment rate Education employed more than 250 nurses and are opening over 100 additional • Unemployment down to 5.8% • Students achieving their Tasmanian Certificate of hospital beds. • Down from 7.5% at the March 2014 State election Education up 8.6% since 2013 Our agriculture, aquaculture and tourism sectors are booming, creating vital and our long term • Tasmania now has the 3rd lowest unemployment • 30 schools now extended to Year 12 and rate of any State enrolments since 2014 up 58% jobs in regional Tasmania. More young Tasmanians are completing Year 12, Plan, including giving them the best possible start in life. Jobs – number of employed Police numbers And our budget is back in balance, meaning we can afford to invest more key targets, • Now 245,600 Tasmanians employed • Police numbers now up to 1204 FTE • Up from 235,100 employed at March 2014 • 84 FTE more than at March 2014 into essential services such as health. State election • Previous Government axed 108 police officers in is on track. But we know that this isn’t as good as it gets; far from it. • 10,500 jobs created under majority Liberal 2011-2013 Government We know that not everyone is feeling the benefits of the stronger economy, But we know there is more to • Highest employment level ever in Tasmania Nurse numbers • The number of nurses employed in the Tasmanian or shorter waiting lists and we know that rising costs of living are a real issue. be done. That is why in addition Health Service is 3,603 FTE, an increase of more Young people in jobs So now, we’re focused on building your future. to the existing targets, we are • Now 38,800 young Tasmanians employed than 250 since June 2014 setting 43 new targets to help • Up 2,700 from 36,100 young Tasmanians Under our Plan to Build Your Future we will: employed at 2014 election Visitor numbers • Visitors numbers now at 1.26 million, up 19% - Deliver a stronger economy and create even more jobs build Tasmania’s future. These - Take action on cost of living Budget position from 1.05 million in March 2014 are 43 specific actions that - Invest even more into health, education, and Tasmanians in need • Improved $1.3 billion since 2014 election • Visitor spending up 33% since 2014 will help improve the lives of • In 2014, faced $1.1 billion in - Keep Tasmanians safe Tasmanians and which you can cumulative deficits - Protect the Tasmanian way of life • Now $200 million in cumulative surpluses - Build the infrastructure of the 21st century measure us against and hold us to account to deliver. Between now State population In fact, our new Plan contains 43 specific ways we’ll improve your life and • Now 519,100 people living in Tasmania that of your family. and the election we will release • Up from 513,900 in the March 2014 quarter new policies that outline how • Population now growing at fastest Today, Tasmania is a prouder, stronger and more confident place to live. rate in 6 years a majority Liberal Government • Previous government saw 16 straight Under our new Plan to Build Your Future, we’ll make Tasmania an even will deliver these targets. This is quarters of negative interstate migration better place to live, and put Tassie at the front of the pack. beginning in June 2011 all part of our Plan to Build Your Will Hodgman MP Future and make Tasmania an Private investment Tasmanian Premier even better place to live. • Up 19.6% on the level at the 2014 election buildingbuildingyouryourfuture.com.aufuture.com.au 3 Building your future Our new targets to deliver a stronger Our new targets to take action on Our new targets to keep Continuing targets Under our plan to economy and more jobs the cost of living Tasmanians safe • To grow the Tasmanian population to 650,000 by 1. Reduce the unemployment rate to the best State 19. Ensure Tasmania has the lowest regulated 32. The lowest serious crime rate in the nation across 2050 Build Your Future in the country by 2022 electricity prices in the country throughout the all victimisation measures by 2022 • Grow the annual farm gate value of the agricultural next four year term of Government 2. Reduce the youth unemployment rate to at or 33. The lowest use of crystal methamphetamine sector to $10 billion per year by 2050 we will: below the national average by 2022 20. Keep cost of living increases for Government (ice) of any state by 2022 • Double the annual value of our salmon industry to services, on average, at or below the rate of 3. A 40% increase in apprentices and trainees in 34. Reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries $1 billion by 2030 the private sector by 2025 inflation for the next four years of government > Deliver a stronger on Tasmania’s roads to zero by 2050 • Grow our tourism industry to 1.5 million visitors per economy and more jobs 4. No new or increased taxes for Tasmanians year by 2020 Our new targets for health, 35. A 33% decrease in the risk to Tasmanian lives 5. We will remain net debt free and properties from bushfire by 2022 • To have the healthiest population by 2025 > Act on the cost of living 6. Over the next four years, we will continue to education and Tasmanians in need • By 2020, be at or above the national standard spend less than what we earn 21. Reduce smoking rates to below the national Our new targets to protect the in every single NAPLAN measurement and meet > Invest in health, education average by 2025, and halve the gap between 7. Double the amount of water available through national benchmarks in reading, writing, maths State and national youth smoking rates (for Tasmanian way of life and Tasmanians in need Tasmanian Irrigation Schemes by 2025 and science under 25s) 36. Sustain home ownership rates of 5% above the 8. All fin-fish farming to be 100% compliant with national average • 50% representation of women on Government > Keep Tasmanians safe environmental regulations 22. Reduce Tasmania’s rate of obesity to below the national average by 2025 37. No more land lock-ups Boards by 2020 9. An 85% clear-up rate on reported red tape by 23. A 20% reduction in the suicide rate by 2022 • 50% female Liberal representation by 2022 > Protect the Tasmanian 2022 38. The lowest incidence of litter in the country by 24. 90% of Tasmanians will be treated within 2023 way of life 10. 90% of all Government contracts to be awarded clinically-recommended timeframes for their Targets set in 2014 already achieved to Tasmanian-based businesses by 2022 39. Zero net emissions for Tasmania by 2050 > Build Tasmania’s elective surgery by the end of the next four year • Reduce the unemployment rate to at least the 11. A 10% increase in small business employment term of Government national average infrastructure for the by 2022 25. 90% of emergency presentations will be in and Our new targets to build Tasmania’s 21st century • Return the budget to surplus within six years 12. 50,000 tourism-related jobs by 2022 out of the Emergency Department within four infrastructure for the 21st century 13. A 50% increase in the average per visitor spend hours by 2022 40. Over the next four years, increase the long-term • Reduce red and Green tape by 20% by 2022 26. Reduce emergency ambulance response times to average investment in public infrastructure by 14. 70% of all visitors to stay overnight in regional national average waiting time by 2025 20% areas during their trip to Tasmania by 2022 27. Ensure the retention rate of students from Years 41. Make Tasmania energy self-sufficient with an 15. A 25% increase in people employed in the 10-12 is at or above the national average by additional 1,000 gigawatt hours of on-island building and construction sector over the next 2022 renewable generation by the end of 2022 five years 28. 75% of all students in Year 12 to complete their 42. Bring all Tasmania’s primary freight and TCE by 2022 16. A 50% increase in new mining ventures over five passenger roads up to a minimum three-star years 29. Triple the number of new affordable houses by AusRAP safety rating by 2040 17. Double the forest, fine timber and wood fibre 2025 43. Complete TasWater’s 10 year capital program industry value-add to $1.2 billion by 2036 30. A 10% increase in housing available for young people at risk by 2025 (from 1 July 2018) in five years 18. Double production from Tasmania’s hardwood plantations by 2022 31. A 50% reduction in serious child abuse by 2022 buildingyourfuture.com.au 5 Delivering a stronger economy and more jobs 1. Reduce the unemployment rate 3. A 40% increase in apprentices 4. No new or increased taxes for Jobs remain to the best state in the country by and trainees in the private sector by Tasmania’s 2014 Budget Tasmanians 2022 2025 economy has had target achieved Since the election, we have imposed no new or our number In 2014, we came to office with a target to reduce the There has been a decline in apprentices in the building increased taxes on Tasmanians.