Federal election 2025: Anthony Albanese stops by Tasmania for infrastructure reveals on election tour

The prime minister is blitzing Tasmania as he doubles down on the election contest being a choice on Australia’s future.

Anthony Albanese will target different parts of the state alongside three ministers on Wednesday to make infrastructure announcements under a plan Labor hopes will give it another term.

He will start the day in Devonport with Finance Minister Katy Gallagher before an expected visit to Hobart.

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King will be on Flinders Island, while Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is in Launceston.

Labor’s candidates for Bass, Braddon and Lyons will join the prime minister and the senior ministers on the road.

Mr Albanese said his government was determined to build Australia’s future, which included “critical” investments in Tasmania.

“Peter Dutton and the opposition won’t stand up for the interest of Tasmanians,” he said of the opposition leader.

“My government cares about Tasmanians. That’s why we are delivering on cost of living relief, investing in housing and infrastructure, child care and healthcare for Tasmania.”

Last week, the prime minister completed a three-state blitz of key battlegrounds across Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

University of Tasmania public policy associate professor Kate Crowley said the forming of a coalition on the left of politics might take place as early as this year, as voters turn away from the major parties.

“The cost of living and the cost of housing have really been the match that’s lit the fire,” she told AAP.

“People are peeling off now saying ‘it’s just too much, I’m going to vote for someone else. I’m not getting what I want from my party’.

“That’s where we are in Australia.”

Previous polling has shown a Labor minority government as a likely outcome after this year’s federal election, due by May 17.

Mr Albanese had a proven track record of negotiating policy through minority government as he had done so during the former Gillard government, Associate Professor Crowley said.

“They were enormously productive. They know how to get legislation through,” she said.

On the Greens, Assoc Prof Crowley noted the minor party had taken a hit at state elections, and had been a “handbrake” on housing measures put forward by Labor.

“They need to have a little bit of a think about their tactics, how they want to re-position if they’re going to do well out of the next federal election,” she said.