The Abbott cabinet is still "functioning exceptionally well", according to talking points leaked to Fairfax Media for a second successive day.

In fact, a day after the embarrassing leaking on Wednesday of the government's morning note to senior ministerial advisers, just five words had been changed in Thursday's edition of the morning note, which is authored in the Prime Minister's office and sent to chief of staff Peta Credlin, deputy chief of staff Andrew Hirst and the government's senior press secretaries.

On the rolling series of leaks that have hit the Abbott government this week, the Thursday note tells ministers to say that: