For instance,money has (again) been poured into the ultra-marginal electorates of Bass and Braddon in Tasmania. It stretches from the substantial (more than $600 million alone by the Coalition into Bass) to the not so substantial (a $1.5 million commitment by the Coalition to the Slipstream circus in Ulverstone).
A bit further down the Midland Highway to the safe Labor seat of Franklin,the Coalition’s financial interest disappears to loose change.
On the mainland,the key marginal seat of Gilmore on the NSW South Coast must have some of the worst roads in the country. Long-term ignorance by the federal and state governments is now being addressed by the Coalition,which has managed to pledge $430 million in road projects in four weeks.
Not to be outdone,Labor has promised more than $100 million worth of projects in the same seat including $45,000 on outdoor sun and rain protection for a local high school.
Labor is no better. One of Anthony Albanese’s main promises in the first week of the election campaign was around Medicare urgent care clinics. Of the five announced,three of them happen to be on their way to marginal electorates.