Status quo or a salmon revolution? Anything could happen in Tasmania’s five crucial seats

Labor’s Rebecca White (left) faces Susie Bower of the Liberals in Lyons, while the anti-salmon campaigner Peter George is targeting the seat of Franklin. Composite: The Guardian

Few candidates in hyper-marginal seats arrive with the profile or sense of expectation that accompany Rebecca White.

Labor’s contender for the sprawling Tasmanian electorate of Lyons, White is a political veteran at just 42, having led the ALP in state parliament for more than six years until March last year, when she resigned following a third straight election loss.