New polling shows Labor is closing the gap on the LNP just five days out from the election.
The figures are the best Steven Miles’ government has seen this year.
As voters hit the ballot box early in record numbers, the LNP was blasting their own theme music via a portable boombox.
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Both leaders toured marginal seats across the state that could determine election victory.
With five days to go, an exclusive new poll by Resolve has the LNP’s lead shrinking, but still ahead 53 to 47 on a two-party preferred basis.
It translates to a 6 per cent swing, which in the 93-seat parliament would see Labor lose 13 seats to the LNP, enough to give David Crisafulli a slim two-seat majority
In the poll of 1000 Queenslanders, 19 per cent of respondents had already voted, with all voters polled also filling out their preferences.
The LNP gained 40 per cent of the primary vote, Labor on 32, the Greens on 11 and One Nation on nine.
The result will make Labor smile with the premier in North Queensland promising a new dental van worth $5.2 million.
“This dental clinic will be able to traverse the remote communities of the Cape,” Miles said.
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David Crisafulli, also in the north, committed $27. 5 million for every kindy student to receive free vision, hearing and speech development checks.
“A test like this can mean the difference between a child going onto a successful life … or falling into a life of crime,” he said.
The LNP is looking to pick up three seats in Townsville, in a three-way race with Labor and the Katters.
Today they launched an attack on the KAP’s Mundingburra candidate, Michael Pugh, over his criminal history with an ad showing him behind bars.
The Katter Party labelled it a dirty tactic, given the offences happened 20 years ago and Pugh has apologised.
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“It’s unprecedented that the Katter Party would put a candidate up who invaded a home with a bayonet to collect a drug debt,” Crisafulli said.
The LNP had their own candidate apology today.
Bree James fronted up over her social media post of a vandalised banner showing her with a Hitler moustache.
James then joked the banner was celebrating her German heritage.
“I put up a joke about it, it was really poor taste and I’m really sorry about it. And I really hope everyone will forgive me for it,” James said.
While the premier sounded forgiving yesterday, today he suggested James should potentially be disendorsed.
“I certainly would have reprimanded a candidate and depending on their position in the party, considered whether that was appropriate to continue,” Miles said.
Labor is backing its own Gold Coast candidate Rita Anwari over a previous fraud charge.
9News can reveal in 2018 the candidate for Theodore was fined $2000 after pleading guilty to one count of fraud for signing off on 42 blue card applications when she was an office manager for a training organisation.
A conviction was not recorded.
Anwari says her boss told her to sign documents she shouldn’t have.
“My boss used me, my honesty, because I wasn’t doing things what he wanted from me. So I pleaded guilty because at that time I didn’t have that much power, as a woman, to stand up for myself and fight,” she said.
The magistrate accepted Anwari’s genuine mistaken belief she could sign the documents but noted the blue card system was very serious, “so I have to have regard to the seriousness of the offending in light of that framework”.
“I didn’t really know how to handle it, I was very honest,” she said.
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