Prime Minister Scott Morrison has extended the olive branch to Tasmania by talking up the state's turnaround under the government of Will Hodgman.
Tasmania is the among states and territories at logger heads with the federal government over the GST carve up, and wants a legal guarantee the state won't be worse off.
Addressing the Liberal state council in Hobart, Mr Morrison lavished praise on the Hodgman government for creating jobs and attracting people to the state.
Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman makes an address during the Tasmanian Liberals' State Conference. Source: AAP
"This has become the turnaround state under Will," he said.
"To March 2018, 2,200 other Australians decided to come here and be Tasmanians - that's a turnaround that is happening here in Tasmania under Liberal governments."
Tasmania's unemployment dropped from eight per cent to 5.8 per cent under the Hodgman government, re-elected earlier this year, Mr Morrison added.
"Our governments are working together at a national level, at a local level here," he said.
The prime minister on Friday also sought to highlight common ground between Tasmania and Canberra on a visit to the state's west coast.
He assured Tasmania will be better off under the GST changes by $122 million over eight years.
In a jovial address to Liberal faithful at Bellerive Oval, Mr Morrison also declared the Liberals were targeting Bass, Braddon and Lyons at the next federal election, comparing the party to a boat gathering momentum.
"Every member of the Liberal Party has to ask themselves one question between now and the next election: 'is what you are doing making our boat go faster?'," he said.
"Our nation needs the Liberal boat to go faster."
