According to the Daily Mercury, she spoke to SDV’s state operations manager Dan Wilkins about the importance of local jobs and how her Labor party would not support 100% fly-in, fly-out mines – a reference to BHP Billiton’s new Daunia and Caval Ridge open cut coal operations.

A week ago Roy Morgan Research said the Queensland election was too close to call – using statistically significant data based on views from more than 4000 respondents.

Yesterday the site SportsBet.com.au was giving the Liberal National Party odds of 1.1:1 chance of being re-elected this Saturday, while the Labor party were rated with a 6:1 chance.

The Courier-Mail is predicting a close result, due to the LNP campaign wheels almost falling off as Queensland Premier Campbell Newman “hit a few potholes of his own making”.

“A hundred hours from polling day and about the only given is that the next Parliament will be fairly evenly balanced and what should have been a five-term LNP hegemony could turn into something much less,” the comment piece said.

“No matter what the outcome, questions will be asked after Saturday as to how the country’s best resourced conservative outfit, furnished with the biggest parliamentary majority in Australian history, could be staring at defeat after just one term.”