What do Labor’s costings tell us about the Queensland election campaign?

It didn’t take long for Treasurer Cameron Dick to change the subject.

Exactly 47 seconds into the release of Labor’s election costings, Mr Dick launched into an attack against Clive Palmer — just over a minute into the press conference Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington was also drawn into the fray.

“The LNP will have to put 30,000 Queenslanders out of a job to fund their election commitments and to deliver a surplus within four years,” Mr Dick said.

The release of costings isn’t usually a platform to launch an attack — in a normal election campaign it’s the final summing up of all the promises over the…