Credit rating not at risk: Shorten

Bill Shorten has dismissed suggestions a Labor government would put Australia's triple-A credit rating at risk.

Leading economist Saul Eslake has said significantly larger budget deficits - which Labor proposes over the next four years - would put the rating at risk.

"The only party who has had the triple-A credit rating critiqued is the government," Mr Shorten told reporters in the ACT on Tuesday.