Tasmania's net debt is set to blow out in the coming years. Photo: Chris Kidd/AAP PHOTOS

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

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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.

Treasurer Eric Abetz labelled union pay rise demands as "simply un

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