Party officials are optimistic parliament's long winter break will give them room to make Australians more aware of their policy proposals, helping them cut through and reverse their dire political fortunes.
The coalition ends the first half of the parliamentary year trailing Labor and One Nation on a record low 17 per cent primary vote according to Newspoll, with some MPs beginning to chatter about Angus Taylor's long-term leadership prospects.
Liberal MPs needed to focus on building a narrative voters could relate to, opposition treasury spokesman Tim Wilson told AAP.
"What should our focus be? It should be building out the policy frameworks, to have a story to tell Australians about how we're going to build a more bright and hopeful Liberal future," he said.
Criticisms of Labor and One Nation would be better-received if people understood the coalition's alternative policies, one senior Liberal source said.
In his budget reply speech in May, Mr Taylor promised to index tax brackets in line with inflation, a move he said would return about $1000 a year to the typical worker.
He has also pledged to slash government spending and block permanent residents from accessing welfare.
Labor will also use the break to build awareness of its latest round of tax cuts, its expansion of paid parental leave, and to defend its controversial changes to the tax treatment of investments.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used question time on Wednesday to flay the coalition after Liberal MP Melissa McIntosh called for a rebrand.
"There's certainly time to take the Liberal out of the Liberal Party. It's not their brand, it's their product that's the problem," he told parliament.
"It's not your sales pitch, it's your policies. It's not what you call yourselves, it's who you are."Â
In the final sitting week before the parliamentary break, the government introduced legislation aimed at strengthening its world-first social media age limit and a crackdown on gambling ads.
Neither bill is expected to pass parliament on Thursday, and debate on the two - along with contentious changes to the NDIS - will resume when MPs next return to the nation's capital in August
The prime minister will also travel to Fiji and the Solomon Islands in coming days, seeking to bolster security ties and combat China's influence in the Pacific.
