As the make-up of the House of Representatives hangs in the balance, with a hung parliament or minuscule Coalition majority the most probable outcomes, Mr Shorten sold himself as the leader with a plan and painted Mr Turnbull as a failure. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the PM should resign because he doesn't know what he is doing. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen "We will work with the Liberals, we will work with the crossbenchers and the minor parties because this country and this Parliament is too important to fall foul of needless partisanship, but we won't compromise our principles and policies program," he said. Flanked by deputy Tanya Plibersek, who has declared her ongoing support for him amid leadership rumblings, Mr Shorten wouldn't be drawn on questions about speculated rival Anthony Albanese. Mr Albanese, who was reported on the weekend to have support to challenge, has been silent since Saturday night despite demands he go public with a declaration of loyalty to the current leader.

Mr Shorten repeated his argument that Mr Turnbull has no mandate for his election platform and leads a divided party that had already broken out in "internal civil war". "Mr Turnbull clearly doesn't know what he is doing. Quite frankly, I think he should quit," he said. "He has taken this nation to an election on the basis of stability. He has delivered instability. His own party know he is not up to the job, the Australian people know he is out of touch and he has given a Senate reform which involves two or three One Nation senators." Conservative finger-pointing is now happening inside and outside the Liberal Party, with firebrand senator Cory Bernardi questioning Mr Turnbull's performance and commentator Andrew Bolt also calling for him to quit. As well as pointing to the new composition of the Senate, likely to be more difficult to navigate than the last for an incoming government, the Opposition Leader compared the Prime Minister's actions to what has unfolded in Britain following the decision to leave the European Union.