The Western Australian Government has said it has run out of time to pass all of its priority bills before Parliament rises ahead of the election.

With only nine sitting weeks remaining, there is speculation the Government will dump some of its more contentious bills, including ones to privatise the Fremantle and Pilbara ports and focus on law and order instead.

Manager of Government Business in the Legislative Council, Peter Collier, said he is aware time was running out.

"We've got nine weeks and nine weeks isn't a long time," Mr Collier said.

The Government has bout 40 bills before both houses and if they are not dealt with before Parliament rises, they would have to be re-introduced after the election in March and debated again.

"Politics is all about the possible, now I've got to work with the Premier work with (Minister) John Day, work with my ministers to determine what is possible but in particular what is our priority and then from that list what is possible," Mr Collier said.

Peter Collier said the WA public would be satisfied with what the Government has achieved in eight years. ( ABC News: Andrew O'Connor )

Without the support of the Nationals, it is understood the Government would allow legislation to privatise the Fremantle and Pilbara ports to lapse.

Bills waiting to be discussed

A bill to sell the betting agency TAB is yet to surface and the Opposition's Manager of Business in the Legislative Assembly, Michelle Roberts, said she did not expect to see it before the election.

"I expect they'll try and hide that agenda for privatisation, I expect they won't want us talking about that in parliament," Ms Roberts said.

Premier Colin Barnett is due to meet senior ministers this week to discuss which bills will be introduced and which could wait.

The Government could be tempted to leave the difficult or contentious bills until after the election.

Bills before the Parliament include changes to the taxi and potato industries.

There is also another to overhaul Main Roads, that would give it new powers to impose tolls on truck drivers.

The Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Bill has sat idle since 2014.

There are also bills that would deal with bushfires, terrorism, police search powers and one to crackdown on protesters.

Michelle Roberts said the government had been "slow and tardy" when it came to parliament. ( ABC News: Andrew O'Connor )

Mr Collier said the West Australian public would be "very satisfied" with what the Government had achieved over the past eight years.

"They will never have died wondering what we've achieved," Mr Collier said.

"Now if we've got a backlog of legislation that's an exciting time."

But the Opposition does not see it the same way.

"They've been slow and tardy when it comes to the Parliament," Ms Roberts said.

"The Barnett Government's approach to parliament has been nothing short of shambolic.

"It means that they're clearly going to leave some of those important pieces of legislation until after the election so I don't think that's acceptable."

The Premier is due to return from leave on Monday.