The battle lines have been drawn with the Queensland election campaign set to officially begin.
The government will go into caretaker mode on Tuesday when Premier Steven Miles visits Governor Jeannette Young, officially starting the countdown to the October 26 poll.
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The Liberal National Party appear on track for victory based on consistent polling.
The most recent results by Freshwater Strategy on Monday had David Crisafulli’s LNP leading Labor by 56 per cent to 44 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis.
However both parties are claiming the underdog tag.
“There’s a lot of work to do convincing Queenslanders of what the risks are under a David Crisafulli government,” Transport Minister Bart Mellish said on Monday.
Yet the LNP leader also believed he was “behind the eight ball”, pointing to the party’s election track record.
Labor has won 11 of the last 12 state elections, with Campbell Newman the last LNP premier in Queensland from 2012-2015.
Prior to the Newman government, Robert Borbidge was premier between 1996 and 1998 for the National Party.
“I’ve gone through the weight of history and 11 of the last 12 (elections have been won by Labor) — that’s not generational, that’s a generation and a half,” Crisafulli said of the challenge ahead of LNP.
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While both parties are reluctant to claim favouritism, the key state election issues are clear — youth crime, housing, health and cost of living pressures.
“They are the battle lines for this election,” Crisafulli said.
On his final day in power ahead of the election, Miles rattled off a slew of announcements, making almost $5 billion in spending promises.
The LNP pledged $100 million towards early intervention programs to address juvenile crime as well as $207 million towards education, particularly teacher resources.
The leaders of both major parties will go head-to-head in a debate on Thursday.