TV ad bookings hint state election just around the corner

LABOR is understood to have booked television advertisements to start as early as Sunday night, as state election speculation ramps up.

It is understood the state ALP has been booking slots in anticipation of an election being called, potentially this weekend, for November 25.

The LNP is also understood to have been booking ad space.

The speculation comes as new figures show the number of public servants has ballooned by more than 20,000 under the Palaszczuk Government, including a surge of 1700 in the three months to June.

Most of the growth to June was in frontline doctors, nurses and teachers as the Government readies itself to fight an election. But the explosion to 217,577 fulltime-equivalent jobs has broken the Government’s pledge to cap public sector recruitment to population growth.