Tasmanians shouldn't have to fly to the mainland to get the health care they need, Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has told a gathering of party faithful, putting health at the centre of the battlelines for the federal election.

Mr Shorten flew into Hobart to address the Tasmanian Labor conference in the city, describing health as the number one issue to him and Tasmania.

"If we don't start putting the resources into the health system today, we will be the first generation to pass onto our children an inferior health system than the ones we inherited to our parents," he said to a round of applause.

Mr Shorten argued Tasmanians were paying too much for healthcare, had the second lowest rate of bulk billing in the country and that too many people were languishing in emergency departments and on elective surgery waiting lists.

"You wait longer, you pay more and you have to travel further."

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He thanked the staff working in the health system, describing them as being required to do more and more with less and less.

He said Tasmania was heading towards an American user-pays-style system.

"Where getting sick means going broke," he said.

Mr Shorten said the federal election would be a choice between a party that prioritises health or funding tax breaks for the well-off.

"We choose health, Medicare and aged care every time, no compromise," he said.

In the 2016 federal election Labor unseated three Liberal MPs in Tasmania after campaigning hard on health issues, dubbed by some as the Medi-scare campaign.

Mr Shorten told the crowd Labor had the best team heading in to the federal election, labelling the Liberals' candidates as a "collection of has-beens, never-weres and Eric Abetz".

On Saturday, popular Senator Lisa Singh became the victim of factional manoeuvring again, after being placed last on the party's senate ticket.

Almost every motion put forward by delegates and union representatives passed at the state Labor conference.

The party vowed to ban puppy farms, and investigate banning cigarette filters, which one delegate described as a "public health hoax."