No early poll: Qld premier THE Queensland premier has hosed down suggestions he might be eyeing an early election. Campbell Newman's personal popularity has been on the slide, according to recent polls, and some analysts have suggested he may be considering going early. "We intend to go full term in Queensland," he told reporters in Canberra on Friday. He said the government still had a lot of work to do to deal with the former Labor government's legacy of debt. "We want to have the debate in Queensland about dealing with the big black cloud of Labor debt - $80 billion worth of Labor debt, Bligh debt, Beattie debt," he said. He said the state's debt levels meant interest payments alone were amounting to $4 billion a year. And we have to deal with that. The government this week announced a series of studies to gauge investor interest in six public assets which could be sold or leased after the next election. Mr Newman again said he won't go down the asset sales path without a mandate from voters. "We won't sell anything without going to an election and the election is not scheduled till March 2015," he said. Meanwhile, Treasurer Tim Nicholls has dismissed a call by the Queensland Council of Unions to reject asset sales in favour of higher payroll and land taxes. What the council of unions is proposing is a job destroying payroll tax and a wealth destroying increase to land tax.