Tas: Labor aiming to reclaim marginal Tas seats over IR laws

AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2006
Tas: Labor aiming to reclaim marginal Tas seats over IR laws

Labor is hoping to maintain the rage at the government's industrial relations changes
.. to win back key Tasmanian seats at next year's federal election.

With preselection for the state's five federal seats now complete .. candidates are
keen for industrial relations to replace forestry as Tasmania's central election issue.

Labor lost the marginal seats of Bass and Braddon at the 2004 election .. largely due
to the party's forestry policy.

But Opposition Leader KIM BEAZLEY says he's determined to win them back by rallying
against the HOWARD government's industrial relations laws .. which he says are unfair
and un-Australian.

Mrs BEAZLEY made his call at the party's state conference in Hobart yesterday.

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KEYWORD: LABOR TAS (HOBART)

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