Qld election battle starts to heat up

QUEENSLAND'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN ON THURSDAY

WHERE THEY WENT

Campbell Newman: Emerald, central Queensland

Annastacia Palaszczuk: Airlie Beach, north Queensland, and Charleville, southwest Queensland

WHAT THEY SAID

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk on Premier Campbell Newman's claim that asset leases could be worth more than the projected $37 billion: "He is plucking figures out of the sky."

Premier Campbell Newman on green groups challenging Adani's Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin: "They are anti-economic development, they are anti-jobs."

TODAY'S POLICIES

LNP

- $375 million to create a major highway in regional Queensland as an alternative option to the state's main thoroughfare, the Bruce Highway.

Labor

- $40 million over four years to help increase tourism jobs and attract visitors from key overseas markets like China.