HEALTH and education outrank the pulp mill as issues of concern for Bass voters, a poll has revealed.
In an Enterprise Marketing and Research Services poll commissioned by the Our Island Our Voices campaign, 1006 Tasmanian voters across all five electorates were asked what issues were most important to them in deciding who to vote for in the state election.
In Bass, 36.9per cent of voters and 41.2per cent of undecided voters rated education as their main concern, 32per cent of all voters and 31.1per cent of undecided voters nominated health and hospitals at number two.
The pulp mill came in as the third most important issue on Bass voters' minds, with 18.5per cent of voters and 13.6per cent of undecided voters indicating the development would influence their vote.
Statewide, 8per cent of all voters attested that the proposed mill was important to them.
Education and health were the top two issues, while 12per cent of all voters and 10per cent of undecided voters nominated the environment as a top priority.
Campaign spokesman and Tasmanian Council of Social Services chief executive Tom Muller said education and health were clearly the most important issues to voters in all five electorates and across all demographics.
"There are clearly votes to be won between now and March for the party that is prepared to make significant policy and funding commitments to improve the education outcomes, health and lifestyles of all Tasmanians," Mr Muller said.
Lyons Labor MHA David Llewellyn said the Labor Government had done a good job on health and education.
"They've always been the top of Labor's priorities - education, health, housing, police services - they are the fundamental issues that concern people in Tasmania and I think over the last years certainly the Labor party has been concentrating on those particular issues," he said.
Mr Llewellyn said voters would see Tasmania Tomorrow as positive reform which would better the education system.
"The Labor party is implementing policies that are going to achieve better outcomes," he said.