A social worker and an environmental campaigner will lead the Greens ticket in Bass and Lyons ahead of the state election next month, with the cost of living, climate change and fairness at the forefront of the party's mind.
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The Greens revealed their full list of candidates for each electorate on Monday, following the announcement of their lead candidates weeks ago.
Social worker Jack Davenport will lead the Green's docket for Bass, alongside environmental campaigner Liz Johnstone.
Greens leader Cassy O'Connor said the party planned to build a greener and fairer state, take "real" climate action and ensure no on was left behind.
"We have an incredible array of Tasmanians here from all walks of life from foster carers to social workers, small business operators, climbers and environmental activists, pulp mill campaigners," she said.
"Diversity is a reflection of the Tasmanian community and I think a lot of Tasmanians would look at state parliament, as it is now and see that it's not a particularly diverse place and all candidates should be taking a ticket to the election that that better reflects our diverse and multicultural Tasmania."
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Ms O'Connor said a point of focus in the election should be on the reported 30,000 Tasmanians who were driven into poverty in the past year.
"I think it places an obligation on every party running at this election to come forward with policies that will ease the cost of living, and the financial suffering of Tasmanians and we'll certainly be making it a focus in this campaign," she said.
Alongside Mr Davenport, who previously ran for the Rosevears Legislative Council seat, is Cecily Rosol, Tom Hall, Mitchell Houghton and Anne Layton-Bennett in Bass.
For Lyons Ms Johnstone will be joined on the ticket by Tim Morris, Jill Pierce, Isabel Shapcott and Glenn Miller.
Further North-West and Dr Darren Briggs will lead the Greens Braddon ticket, with Emily Murray, Tammy Milne, Maureen Corbett and Phill Parsons joining him.
In the South leader Cassy O'Connor will be joined by Vica Bayley, Bec Taylor, Nathan Volf and Tim Smith on the Clark docket.
Alongside Franklin MP Rosalie Woodruff is Gideon Cordover, Kit Darko, Phoenix Harrison and Bridget Verrier in Franklin.
Ms O'Connor said the party's lead candidates would be supported by the other candidates in their electorate during the next four weeks.
"We had a really smooth preselection process, I was really impressed and proud of how quickly we were able to pull together a very thorough process," she said.
"A decision was made by our party's executive on Saturday night and we've filled every seat with five candidates and they're candidates of really significant quality."
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