Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed suggestions she is planning to call an early federal election, insisting her government will run a full term.
Ms Gillard has commissioned Families Minister Jenny Macklin to seek ideas for election policies - a task Ms Macklin also conducted in late 2009-early 2010, before the August 2010 election.
Fairfax newspapers reported Ms Macklin was heading a committee, but Labor sources told AAP it would initially be a solo effort involving the "collecting of ideas and pulling everything together for the prime minister".
The prime minister said the government would run its full term.
"There are some days when you wake up to the newspapers and you think to yourself, `Where on earth did all that come from?'" Ms Gillard told ABC Radio on Wednesday.
"There is no need for such election speculation.
"I have always said that the government would run full term."
The House of Representatives election is due by November 30, 2013.
The earliest date it could be held and still have a Senate election at the same time - as is usual - would be August 3, 2013.
As part of the pact Ms Gillard signed with the crossbench independents, she agreed the parliament would run its full term, with an election to be held in September or October 2013.
Ms Gillard said there had been regular predictions of an early election since the 2010 poll.
"Here we are two years later, more than 300 bills passed and guess what, I'm still saying the government's going to run full term because we will," she said.
