In a federal election all about the numbers, Queensland is shaping up as the winning equation both sides want to solve.
In 2013 Labor won just six of Queensland's 30 seats, with Clive Palmer and Bob Katter taking two, leaving 22 to the federal Coalition.
Since then, Queensland voted out an LNP Government that had the majority to back up the 'three terms at least' hubris in an equally historic swing, which saw a Labor Party that had been reduced to just seven seats three years earlier returned to power.
Rather than give a second chance, Queensland voters moved to punish. The electorate is still wary, with polls showing Labor and the LNP continually tussling for the lead, but neither managing a foothold for long.
he mood means that the Coalition, which not so long ago was looking at what seats it could potentially win from Labor, is concentrating on holding the ones it's got.
The Coalition is all but counting the Clive Palmer-held Sunshine Coast of Fairfax as one of its seats. That gives it 23 in Queensland. Labor is eyeing off 11, just over half of the 19 seats it needs nationally to win. The Coalition needs to limit its net losses to 13 to maintain its outright majority.
Labor sources know that the further outside Brisbane you head the worse Malcolm Turnbull polls. But the same can be said for Bill Shorten while Labor also needs to counter an emerging Greens vote in Brisbane.
Unions are planning big campaigns in the seats Labor is targeting. Petrie, which is held by the Coalition with one of the smallest margins in the nation, has acted as a bellwether since 1987, falling to whichever party wins power. It is not seen as an easy mark for Labor, despite only being decided by 871 votes in the last election.
But Brisbane, Forde and Bonner are seen as slightly easier targets.
Central Queensland has suffered immensely in the resources slowdown, and voters in the seats of Capricornia and Flynn can expect several visits from both sides.
Longman and Dickson along with northern seats Dawson, Herbert and Leichhardt are also on the target list, but higher than average unemployment has muddied the waters. The Coalition is looking at Moreton and Lilley as potential pick ups, which makes Labor's job harder.
Queensland unions have already planned strong campaigns attacking "a Turnbull LNP government only interested in cutting health and education funding and entrenching tax breaks for big business".
Mr Shorten made Brisbane one of his first stops, with the Opposition hoping to capitalise on a less than generous budget offering for Queensland.
But the Turnbull Government has money left over from its $5 billion asset recycling fund, which many pundits believe will end up in Queensland in at least some form, with cross river rail, the state's number one infrastructure project, and the $100 million over four year commitment to the new Townsville stadium among the expected announcements.
The state Opposition was quick to point to the $11 billion in infrastructure projects promised between 2013 and 2020, which included $6.7 billion for the Bruce Highway and $600 million for the inland freight rail corridor between Melbourne and Brisbane.
The Palaszczuk Labor Government enjoyed a congenial relationship with the Turnbull administration in the months following his ascension to the prime ministership, with the second stage of the Gold Coast light rail project announced shortly after, but relations between the two have deteriorated in recent months.
Queensland has refused to entertain the Commonwealth's proposed changes to tax arrangements as well as gone on the attack on changes to future funding formulas, which it says robs it of $18 billion across health and education – two of the biggest issues federal Labor plans to take up.
The election will be held on July 2.