Prime Minister Tony Abbott says there will be no early election after the government's second budget received a better reception than its first.
He said the government always planned to run full term, and the budget was not designed to prime voters for an election before the one that's due next year.
"That is what the people of Australia elected us to do - to govern the country as best we could, to deliver on our commitments as best we could, for a full three years," he told the Nine Network on Wednesday.
An early election never featured in the government's pre-budget calculations, Treasurer Joe Hockey said.
"We never sat down and said let's have an election, never, not once," he told ABC television.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen told ABC radio Labor was ready if an early election were called.
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