While the leaders focused on the cost-of-living local candidates were focused on the salmon industry. Hundreds gathered at Nubeena on the Tasman peninsula today to protest fish farming and the federal government's last-minute laws aimed at allowing the industry to continue in Macquarie harbour.
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00:00Raising their voices, crowds gathered at Newbina to rally against changes to Australia's environmental
00:13laws, an issue that has caused a clash in the Tasmanian community.
00:23After a heated debate, legislation guaranteeing the future of salmon farming in Macquarie
00:28Harbour passed just before the election was called.
00:32It limits environmental challenges, ending a process where the Environment Minister had
00:36been considering whether to review fish farming in the harbour.
00:40Labor chose to work with Peter Dutton and the Liberals to weaken environment laws in
00:45Australia.
00:46They are going to pay for that at the ballot box.
00:48The coalition claims the changes could be wound back if Australians elect a minority
00:52government.
00:53The Greens said specifically that one of their key demands around the future of the salmon
01:00industry is that those laws will be repealed.
01:03They want that industry dead.
01:04Labor's campaigning for majority government, we're the only party that can win majority
01:08government at this election.
01:09The salmon issue will be a key feature of the campaign in Tasmania.
01:13Politicians on both sides of the salmon debate are confident their position is a vote winner.
01:18But it's not clear if it's enough to change people's minds.
01:22But for these protesters, it's issue number one.
01:25I think it's going to be so important and definitely will impact who I vote for as a
01:29young person.
01:30And it definitely has affected my vote for the next election and I have no choice but
01:35to vote Green.
01:36That's a death knell to Liberal and Labor.
01:38What they've done to those environmental laws is absolutely disgraceful.
01:43Voters trying to send a message ahead of a federal election.