Labor makes nursing graduate pledge

Labor is promising 12-months employment to 1000 nursing graduates, if the party is elected to Queensland government.

Opposition leader Annastacia Palaszczuk made the policy announcement at Griffith University's nursing school on the Gold Coast on Sunday.

Under the plan, 1000 nursing graduates will be hired on a 12-month contract each year for four years.

The $111 million plan will also quarantine a third of that money to regional and rural areas of the state to lure graduates to those areas.

Ms Palaszczuk said the policy was a great start for nursing graduates in Queensland.

"One thousand, that is a lot more than the LNP (Liberal National Party) are employing and they've cut 1800 out of our health system," she said.

The Labor leader was repeatedly asked what would happen to those nurses following their initial 12-month employment, particularly given graduate nurses are paid a lot less in their first years of employment.

"My understanding is a lot of graduates are not getting employment," she said.

"The government is putting on temporaries and they're putting on casuals, we want to make sure that our graduates are getting a job."

Ms Palaszczuk will remain on the Gold Coast as the campaign enters its final week, attending a rally against a proposed cruise ship terminal development on the Broadwater before returning to Brisbane.