Newman uncertain on local pledges

Queenslanders will miss out on Liberal National Party local election promises if their local LNP candidates don't get voted in.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman says he will honour all his election promises but only if voters back their local LNP candidate.

Mr Newman said on Saturday voters could have confidence in any pledge issued as part of the Liberal National Party's overall state plan.

But electorates that failed to vote in an LNP candidate would miss out on promised local projects, he warned.

"If you vote one for the LNP candidate in your local area and they get up they will deliver," the premier said in Mackay.

"If they're not elected, well, then the new member may have different ideas and different priorities that we cannot guarantee we will do."

Mr Newman promised 85 new health professionals for the region, to develop the Galilee Basin and to pass laws protecting cane growers from price gauging by foreign sugar millers.

The premier also continued to accuse Labor of being backed by bikie gangs.

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said his allegations were serious and should be a matter for police if he had concrete evidence.

But Mr Newman said Google searches showed the CFMEU Union, which supports Labor, was linked to bikie gangs.

"It's up to Annastacia Palaszczuk and the Labor party to demonstrate that what I've said is not the case," the premier said.

But Mr Newman denied he was insinuating Labor was guilty until proven innocent.

Earlier, he defended an email sent to LNP supporters featuring a photo of Ms Palaszczuk with the words "don't wake up with regrets" after election day.

Mr Newman denied it was nasty or had sexual connotations.

While the premier jetted from Toowoomba to Mackay and then Bundaberg, the opposition leader was in Brisbane pledging $6 million to review teacher classifications.

Ms Palaszczuk said the review could boost the salaries of the state's best teachers to $120,000 but conceded it could take up to four years to complete.

The Queensland Greens called for greater government accountability and transparency at a Brisbane rally. Senator Larissa Waters said the best way to achieve that was by holding a referendum on reintroducing an upper house to the state parliament.

Queenslanders go to the polls on January 31.


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