Labor is about to face its do-or-die moment of the Queensland election campaign.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk will reveal its election policy costings and much-anticipated law-and-order plans on Thursday.
Under growing pressure from the Liberal National government and the media, Labor has left it until two days before polling day to detail its major plans.
Ms Palaszczuk's campaign has so far included a swathe of modest promises, including on Wednesday when she made a commitment of $12 million over four years to fund 20 new school nurses.
She continued her last-minute electorate blitz, visiting seven marginal seats in seven hours, while the LNP continued to attack her lack of big-ticket policies and detailed costings.
"It is absolutely unheard of that a major party at this stage of a campaign would have no infrastructure plan," Treasurer Tim Nicholls said.
"No significant health or education policies, no economic plan, no law-and-order policy and be unable to say how they would fund their grab bag of minor announcements."
Thursday's long-awaited costings hold the key to the opposition's credibility as a viable potential government.
Labor is also set to detail its plans to deal with bikies after being highly critical of the state's controversial VLAD (Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment) laws.
Ms Palaszczuk, who admitted Labor would only formulate an infrastructure plan if victorious at Saturday's election, was unapologetic about her low-key pledges and humble policies.
"I'm sorry, I make no excuses - this is an early-intervention program," she said at the school nursing announcement.
It's not the first time she has vowed to reinstate public sector job cuts by Campbell Newman's government.
But Ms Palaszczuk, who claims the LNP axed 24,000 jobs, said voters would have to wait until Thursday's costings announcement to see how many Labor would recoup.
In Brisbane, Mr Newman continued his infrastructure election pitches by promising to support the second stage of the Gold Coast light rail project.
Bolstered by the LNP's $37 billion asset leasing program, he also pledged $295 million to improve dangerous level crossing and reaffirmed the state government's $1 billion commitment to an underground tunnel to boost public transport services in Brisbane.
Mr Newman made the announcements at a $250-a-head LNP fundraiser and received spontaneous applause while spruiking Queensland's recent unemployment figures.
Meanwhile, the Queensland Greens have complained to the state's electoral commission over LNP advertising urging voters to "just vote one" for the party.
"LNP advertisements trying to scare people about numbering more than one box amount to a undermining of fair democratic process in Queensland," lead Greens spokesman Charles Worringham said.
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