Both parties are targeting North Queensland's marginal seats in the state election.
After nine days of campaigning, Premier Campbell Newman has spent three days in the southeast, while Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk has only spent two in and around Brisbane.
Both leaders have spent the rest of their time in regional Queensland, north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
The Liberal National Party is keen to sandbag the seats of Rockhampton and Gregory, where long-serving government MPs Ted Malone and Vaughan Johnson are retiring.
Labor is desperate to hold onto Mackay after the shock resignation of Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Mulherin last week.
The party only holds the seat by a tiny margin of 0.5 per cent.
The opposition is also eyeing the traditional Labor seats of Cairns, Cook, Barron River and Whitsunday, which they lost to the LNP in the 2012 landslide.
Labor has only lost Cook twice in history, while Cairns had been a Labor seat since 1904.
A swing of more than 11 per cent would return all four seats to Labor.
Ms Palaszczuk knows that and has made all her major policy announcements, including funding for more teachers and nurses, restarting the successful `Skilling Queenslanders for Work' program and setting up a reef taskforce in the state's north.
She unveiled her reef plan on Wednesday on Green Island, off the coast of Cairns, which is held by the LNP's Gavin King by a margin of 8.9 per cent.
But the biggest election battlefield of all in the north is Townsville.
Labor held the seat from 1989 until the LNP's John Hathaway was elected there in 2012.
To woo voters, both parties have promised to rejuvenate the city's flagging economy by helping fund a new sports stadium.
The LNP's plan involves leasing the city's port to the private sector and funding $150 million of the $210 million project.
The plan would eventually involve building residential, shopping and commercial precincts around the stadium.
Labor's has offered $100 million in funding and say their contribution doesn't depend on leasing the Port of Townsville.
However, it's still unclear how the opposition intends to come up with the money.
Mr Hathaway, who holds Townsville by a margin of 4.7 per cent, will be hoping voters prefer his party's plan on January 31.
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