No talk of replacing Shorten: Albanese

Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says he's not interested in taking over the leadership, and the party remains united behind Bill Shorten.

Mr Albanese says no one in the party is talking about replacing Mr Shorten, despite a recent jump in the polls for Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

Earlier this week, a Fairfax-Ipsos poll put Mr Abbott in front as preferred prime minister 44-39 per cent, while a Newspoll had him in just ahead of Mr Shorten 41-40 per cent.

Mr Albanese, who lost a leadership contest to Mr Shorten in 2013, says he's "not available" for the job.

"He has done a good job. Look at where we have been in the polls. Even the worst poll at the moment has us on 50/50. The other polls have us ahead still," he told the Nine Network on Friday.

"I'm not available. We have a leader. The leader is Bill Shorten and he will lead us to the next election."

But federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne insisted Mr Albanese was eyeing the Labor leadership.

"The code for everything Anthony has just said is `I'm available'. That's the code," he said.

Mr Shorten won the 2013 caucus vote convincingly 55-31, but the wider membership backed Anthony Albanese 60-40 per cent.

When the two tallies were weighted against each other, Mr Shorten had 52 per cent of the vote.