Labor MP Patrick Gorman wants to take federal Parliament on the road.

The West Australian backbencher says Parliament should sit in other capital cities and regional centres to boost the standard of political debate and better engage with voters. Mr Gorman, a former adviser to Kevin Rudd and former ALP state secretary, reasons if Parliament travelled beyond Canberra, a wider range of people could see and understand its work.

"Politics is an in-person business," Mr Gorman told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Labor MP Patrick Gorman wants to take federal Parliament on the road. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

The Labor MP is calling for a trial sitting of Parliament somewhere such as Darwin or Perth - although he is not insisting on a particular location - in the current term of Parliament. Eventually, he would like to see an interstate or regional sitting every year.