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Ethan James

'Mortgaging the future': Liberal state debt criticised

The Tasmanian government's big-spending budget has been attacked by the opposition and doctors. (Rob Blakers/AAP PHOTOS)

Future generations are set to pay the cost for a Liberal budget which plunges Tasmania further into debt, the state's Labor opposition and key cross bench independents say. 

The Liberals, who have been in power since 2014 and were re-elected in minority in March, on Thursday handed down the 2024/25 state budget. 

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