PM pressured to not cut homeless funds

Both sides of politics are calling on the federal government to guarantee it will continue homelessness funding before a five-year-old agreement runs out in coming months.

The National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness between the Commonwealth and states and territories expires on June 30, leaving the social services sector seeking assurances that funding will be ongoing.

Liberal West Australian child protection minister Helen Morton said such an assurance was "the very least" the federal government could provide, while opposition transport spokesman Anthony Albanese said cuts to homelessness funding "should be completely off the agenda".

Mr Albanese said the Commission of Audit into government spending should be released before the re-run WA Senate election on April 5.

"Joe Hockey is sitting on it - it's 900 pages of cuts - and they're holding off, I think, until after the WA Senate election," he told Fairfax radio in Perth.

"They should release it so at least people can see what cuts the government is considering in the lead-up to the May budget."

Greens leader Christine Milne, who is also in Perth ahead of the prime minister's expected arrival later on Monday, called on him to address the issue.

"Tony Abbott has to say something about this," she told reporters.

"If you care about people you have to think about those that are most in need, and putting a roof over your head is one of the most basic needs that communities have."

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said Mr Abbott shouldn't leave the state until he has provided the social services sector with some certainty.

"It is completely unacceptable that those service providers don't know whether they can pay the rent or pay their staff on July 1," he said.