Annastacia Palaszczuk has saved her best until last. The opposition leader went head-to-head with Premier Campbell Newman at a Queensland Media Club debate in Brisbane on Friday, the day before Queenslanders head to the polls.
There weren't any knockout blows, but Ms Palaszczuk's performance was strides ahead of her nervy effort at a people's forum event last week.
"Queenslanders have to think - do you want three more years of this?" Mr Palaszczuk roared to applause, gesturing towards Mr Newman.
"Three more years of chaos and dysfunction, or do you want integrity and accountability restored back into your government?"
Mr Newman, who has more to lose having spent the last three years governing with a huge majority, had a tougher time, being heckled after referring to his $37 billion asset leasing plan as "asset sales".
He was questioned about his promise after 2012 to govern with "grace, humility and dignity", with polls suggesting voters are turned off by his direct style of leadership.
"Yes, on occasions I've been fired up, because I love this state and I'm working my guts out for it," the premier said.
The most fiery part of the otherwise mostly lacklustre debate, just like the last time they squared off a week earlier, came when Mr Newman repeated claims bikies were supporting Labor.
"The bottom line is you want to get rid of the (anti-bikie) laws and the bikies have backed you," Mr Newman said.
"It's on the front page of the paper." Ms Palaszczuk replied: "Rubbish ... really, premier?"
Mr Newman also questioned Ms Palaszczuk about Labor's modest election commitments, which will not be funded by privatisation.
"You call it modest. I call it negligence," he said to applause from the LNP side of the room.
Mr Newman also hit out at Labor's tendency to promise consultation and the development of plans after it is elected to government.
But Ms Palaszczuk insisted Labor has taken that path because it wants to listen to the community and not be an arrogant and combative government like the LNP.
The debate again boiled down to privatisation, with Mr Newman advocating the LNP's leasing plan to pay down debt and fund infrastructure, while Ms Palaszczuk repeated her mantra that "Labor will not sell your assets".
Privatisation is set to be the major factor on Queenslanders' minds when they enter polling booths on Saturday.
An Essential Media poll published in The Australian today has the two sides neck-and-neck on 50 points each for the two-party preferred vote, representing a swing of 12 per cent to Labor since the 2012 election.
ABC election analyst Antony Green says Labor needs a swing of more than 12 per cent to win the 36 seats required to return to government - but he doubts that will happen.
"That would be a complete reversal of the last election which was one of the biggest landslides in Australian political history," he said.
"So it seems far fetched to think that such a small party could win so many extra seats. The LNP should be able to ward off a swing in enough seats to hold onto government." Neither side is leaving the election outcome to mathematics.
Premier Campbell Newman and Opposition Leader Annastascia Palaszczuk have been hitting breakfast television and radio on the final day of campaigning.
The Courier-Mail, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review have all backed a return to the Newman government in their election eve editorials.
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