With the final week of parliament dominated by attacks on Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says all he really wanted to do was talk about coalition plans for Australia's future.

But Ms Gillard predicted that the opposition would continue the attacks on her past involvement with the Australian Workers' Union because they didn't have any positive policies for the future.

Both leaders appeared on back-to-back Sunday television programs, giving their take on the final parliament sitting weeks of the year, before heading into the Christmas break and the looming 2013 election campaign.

Mr Abbott told the Ten Network's Andrew Bolt program he was just going to talk about his plans for the nation.

"As far as I am concerned, what last week was all about was the coalition's positive plans for the future," he said.