Bill Shorten has deflected questions about his hold over the Labor leadership and a challenge from popular frontbencher Anthony Albanese.
The opposition leader dismissed as "silly" a question over how much of a win he'd need on Saturday to stave off a challenge from Mr Albanese.
He said Labor had learnt its lesson on past leadership changes and was more united than it had been in recent times.
"How many seats does Malcolm Turnbull have to lose before Tony Abbott moves on him," Mr Shorten said.
"We are unarguably the most united we've been in probably two decades."
Mr Albanese said the opposition had been focused on getting back to government over the past three years.
No one in the team was in it for themselves.
"We haven't been a small target at this election - and that is to the credit of the leader.
"I back our team."
Mr Albanese won the majority of grassroots votes in Labor's leadership ballot in 2013, but did not achieve enough caucus votes to beat Mr Shorten.
If Mr Shorten loses the federal election the Labor leadership will be automatically spilled.
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