Pressure is mounting on Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk to release Labor's full alternate plan for Queensland, with only three days left in the state election campaign.
Ms Palaszczuk says she'll reveal Labor's election costings and much anticipated law and order policy on Thursday.
She promised in Brisbane on Wednesday $12 million over four years for 20 new school nurses, with all the money to go on wages - meaning they'll be paid on average $150,000 a year.
But Ms Palaszczuk made no apologies for the hefty wage bill.
"These are specialists nurses, so they are not just your standard nurses that you would have in the hospitals," she said.
"Early diagnosis are what they're trained to do."
Ms Palaszczuk was also unapologetic about announcing a seemingly small policy with only days left until Queenslanders vote on Saturday.
"This is about frontline services," she said.
"I'm sorry, I make no excuses - this is an early intervention program."
She is yet to release a law-and-order plan and said a Labor government would devise an infrastructure plan after the election.
"I need to sit down and look at the books," she said.
"This is a government that has denied the opposition access to information over the last three years."
Ms Palaszczuk has been highly critical of the Newman government's decision to cut what she says were 24,000 public service jobs since 2012.
While she's made modest commitments to hire more public servants, Ms Palaszczuk couldn't say how many Labor planned to rehire.
She said workers sacked by the Liberal National Party (LNP) government didn't expect to be rehired.
"Some of them have got other jobs... some of them have moved interstate," she said.
Ms Palaszczuk began the morning in Mackay and after a quick visit to a mining-related company, she flew to Brisbane to make her nursing announcement.
The Labor leader had by early Wednesday afternoon visited nine electorates in three days in a last-minute campaign blitz.
However, she's not expected to match the feat of former Labor premier Anna Bligh who, in 2012, visited 50 seats in five days in a last-ditch and unsuccessful attempt to curb a crushing defeat at the polls.
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