Federal cabinet will meet in Canberra on Tuesday morning as a new poll shows the coalition's political stocks rising.
The first poll taken since Bill Shorten faced two days of intensive questioning at the unions royal commission showed Labor's position slipping.
The Morgan poll put primary support for the Liberal-National coalition at 41.5 per cent, ahead of Labor's 34.5 per cent - the opposition's lowest level since April 2014.
However, Labor still lead the coalition 51-49 in two-party terms - down 2.5 points for the opposition on the previous poll.
A continued improvement in the polls for the Abbott government will intensify speculation of an election in early 2016.
Coalition strategists are weighing up the prospect of a double-dissolution election if workplace laws to crack down on union corruption are rejected again by the Senate when parliament resumes in August.
The cabinet meeting will be the first since Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce railed against the environment minister's approval of a coal mine in his New England electorate.
It also comes as cabinet continues its boycott of the ABC's Q&A program until the broadcaster's board brings it under tighter editorial controls.
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