Premier Anna Bligh has talked about forming a healthy opposition as a new opinion poll shows Labor is headed for a devastating defeat at the hands of the Liberal National Party.
A Galaxy Poll, published in The Sunday Mail, shows the LNP retaining a huge 20-point advantage on a two-party preferred basis.
The LNP leads Labor 60 to 40 per cent in the poll, which suggests Labor could end up with as few as 12 seats.
Ms Bligh admitted it did not look good for Labor, six days out from election day.
“If this poll was replicated, then we would see an LNP government with more power than any government in Queensland’s history and more power than Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen,” she told reporters.
“I think too much unfettered power is never a healthy thing in a democracy.”
She said it was her duty to “get out there and hang on to as many seats as we possibly can”.
Ms Bligh plans to steamroll through 50 electorates in five days ahead of Saturday’s election.
Mr Newman is not about to rest on his laurels either.
He says the party is prepared to fight “every day and every hour” until the ballot closes.
His biggest task is to win the seat of Ashgrove, where opinion polls have continually shown Labor incumbent Kate Jones retain her seat.
The latest Newspoll, published on Friday, shows Mr Newman’s primary vote in the Brisbane seat is steady on 49 per cent.
However, Ms Jones has closed the gap after luring away Greens support.
Mr Newman trails Ms Jones by four points on a two-party-preferred vote, 52 per cent to 48 per cent.
This raises questions as to who would lead the state if Mr Newman fails to win Ashgrove but the LNP wins government.
Mr Newman and Ms Jones came face to face at a community forum of 400-plus in Ashgrove on Sunday.
The voters were asked if the LNP leadership issue bothered them and the overwhelming response was “No”. Several added: “It’s irrelevant.”
Young equal rights campaigners arrived before the start of the forum wanting to confront Mr Newman on his negative stance over same-sex civil union legislation.
But police and event organisers stopped them from entering the school grounds where the forum was held.
Earlier on Sunday, they flash-mobbed his Ashgrove campaign office.
Mr Newman spent Sunday morning at a family barbecue in the bellwether seat of Greenslopes, where he announced $3.5 million to trial a six month extension of the Justice of Peace program.
The program, rolled out in the state’s magistrates’ courts, deals with minor court matters to help reduce backlogs.
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