To privatise or not to privatise?
With Labor's modest election costings finally released, that will be the biggest question Queenslanders take with them to the polling booth on Saturday.
The Liberal National Party has chalked up about $6 billion worth of promises, mainly big-ticket infrastructure pledges, backed by its plan to lease about $37 billion worth of state assets.
But Labor, which suffered a crushing defeat in 2012 due to its own privatisation plans, has committed to less than $1.6 billion worth of election promises, mainly for extra teachers and nurses, without losing any state assets.
Shadow treasurer Curtis Pitt released Labor's eight-page costing document on Thursday, detailing more than $1.7 billion in savings the party says it has found to fund its promises.
Mr Pitt said Labor planned to slash government spending on advertising, reduce the number of cabinet ministers, replace expensive LNP policies and defer expected increases in the state's $1.1 million payroll tax threshold.
"Our election commitments are modest, they are deliberately so, so we can ensure we have a situation going forward where Queenslanders can rely on a government that perhaps isn't the most exciting or controversial, but one that actually cares about Queenslanders," he said.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk did not do her side's economic credentials any favours on Thursday when she was unable to tell a breakfast radio quiz what the GST rate was.
She was given a second chance during a media conference in Gladstone.
"The GST is 10 per cent," she laughed.
"Oh look, I did three radio interviews, didn't have my coffee. These things happen."
Ms Palaszczuk was in Gladstone to reveal Labor's long-awaited law and order policy and continue her anti-privatisation pitch.
She said Labor would not repeal the LNP's controversial anti-bikie laws, which it had previously promised to do.
Instead, she said a Labor government would get an independent task force to review the laws and decide whether to keep some aspects of them.
The backflip has angered the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties. President Michael Cope said: "The only conclusion Queenslanders can draw is the Labor party is not to be trusted on these issues."
Unsurprisingly, the LNP insists Labor's economic credentials cannot be trusted, either, particularly after Ms Palaszczuk's on-air gaffe.
"They are an opposition that can't even tell you what the tax rate is for a tax that supplies 23 per cent of Queensland's revenue," Treasurer Tim Nicholls said.
He also accused Labor of affecting thousands of small businesses with its payroll tax threshold deferral.
Ms Palaszczuk and Premier Campbell Newman will meet for their final debate on Friday.
It could prove crucial after an Essential Research poll, published by The Australian on Thursday, put both major parties neck-and-neck at 50 per cent each on a two-party preferred basis.
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