Bligh defiant over campaign strategy to attack Newman

A DEFIANT Anna Bligh has fought to the bitter end, refusing to retreat from Labor's tactic to personally target Campbell Newman.

LNP Leader Campbell Newman , with Brajee , the standard poodle

A DEFIANT Anna Bligh has fought to the bitter end of the Queensland election campaign, refusing to retreat from Labor's tactic to personally target Campbell Newman over his record at the Brisbane City Council and his family business interests.

The Premier, in a final burst on the hustings that resumed after a 2am finish to the previous day's campaigning, acknowledged there was an "overwhelming mood for change"in Queensland, but was adamant that the ALP had been justified in pursuing questions about the Liberal National Party leader's integrity.

Mr Newman exuded confidence as he renewed his appeal to Queensland voters to ignore Labor's warning that a landslide win for the LNP today would give it too much power in government.

Bob Katter capped his eclectic campaign by attacking both major parties. The conservatives would privatise the state-owned electricity assets, while power prices would increase under Labor as a result of the carbon tax, he said.

In her final pre-election news conference, Ms Bligh said the polls clearly showed her government was facing defeat in a "significant landslide" and lobbied voters to elect a strong Labor opposition, if not an ALP majority.

"Under a Campbell Newman government with unfettered power, I have no doubt we'll see our environment suffer, we'll see cuts to jobs and wages, and a time when developers can reign free," she said, referring to the city council's approving of a controversial development following a $72,000 donation - paid with instalments under seven different names - to Mr Newman's City Hall re-election fund, revealed last month in The Australian.

Asked whether her relentless pursuit of Mr Newman had been a mistake, Ms Bligh did not resile from the attacks.

"There is no doubt that we were struggling against an overwhelming mood for change - that mood was there in 2009 and it was there very strongly in 2006. We've defied political gravity twice and we're very realistic about the chances of doing that again."

Mr Newman made his final pitch to voters on what is set to become home turf in the Brisbane seat of Ashgrove, where he is favoured to pull off his gamble to seize the premier's job from outside parliament by comfortably defeating incumbent Kate Jones, according to latest opinion polls.

He hammered home the message that the Queensland government would not change unless people changed their vote to the LNP.

Labor's last-ditch exhortation to voters to limit the size of his anticipated win was "curious and somewhat disingenuous", Mr Newman said. He countered by warning voters they could still end up with Labor in government if they did not vote LNP.

"We now have this great opportunity for Queenslanders; it's there for them to make their decision tomorrow," he said.

"Change will not occur unless Queenslanders vote for change.

"Every vote is critical, every vote matters.

"People need, if they want that change, to turn out tomorrow, look at the ballot paper, seek out the Labor incumbent and say, 'No, not again, not this time', and vote for the LNP member."

Mr Newman denied he would abuse a big parliamentary majority as premier if, as Newspoll suggests,the LNP party won in a landslide today.

"I can guarantee people that we will be very humble if we win," the LNP leader said.

"We will not let people down, I promise people that."

ADDITIONAL REPORTING: JARED OWENS, SARAH ELKS