Senior Labor frontbencher and one-time party leadership candidate Anthony Albanese has slapped down suggestions from some of his colleagues that South Australian Labor premier Jay Weatherill should be muzzled over a possible increase in the GST.

Launching his re-election bid for the federal seat of Grayndler, in Sydney's inner-west, on Thursday morning, Mr Albanese was asked about calls to bind Mr Weatherill to federal Labor's staunch opposition to any GST increase.

Mr Weatherill, who has repeatedly drawn attention to the looming funding crisis for all states in health and education owing to federal cuts, says he wants to keep a GST increase on the table so long as extra revenues are devoted to those key service areas.

Asked about calls from some of his federal colleagues to effectively gag Mr Weatherill, Mr Albanese responded: "We are not a Stalinist party. Jay Weatherill is entitled as the Premier to put his views on behalf of the South Australian Labor government. "