Tasmania will embark on a host of budget repair measures and cut public sector jobs as it grapples with ballooning debt.

State Liberal Treasurer Eric Abetz on Thursday handed down his 2025/26 interim budget, after the original May version never passed parliament because of a snap state poll.

It forecasts net debt to grow from $5 billion in 2024/25 to almost $10.4 billion by 2028/29, essentially in line with the original budget.

Mr Abetz said several factors had "conspired" to make a return to pre-pandemic spending levels challenging, including two early elections, COVID-19 itself and payments to abuse survivors.

He also took aim at the federal government, saying Canberra had chronically underfunded health services in the state.

The former senator, delivering his first budget as state

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