Two years of Liberal dysfunction: Shorten's assessment

Tony Abbott celebrates two years in the top job and Bill Shorten has unsurprisingly marked the occasion with a blunt assessment of the Liberal leader's time as prime minister.

Mr Abbott has released a 28-page document outlining the coalition's achievements.

He says the government's plan to build a strong, prosperous economy and a safe, secure Australia is making significant progress.

"The legacy of six years of Labor failure is being repaired," he said in a statement.

"Much has been achieved much in the past two years, but it's just the start.

"Despite international uncertainty and volatility, our focus is jobs, growth and community safety."

However, the opposition leader says Mr Abbott has led a government mired in "lies, dysfunction and infighting".

Mr Shorten points to a 13-year high unemployment rate of 6.3 per cent, with more than 800,000 people unemployed for the first time in 20 years.

He says economic growth has been below its long-term trend for every quarter under the Abbott government and the cost of living pressures are increasing.

He also says students face the prospects of $100,000 university degrees and a lifetime of debt.

"At every turn the Liberals have betrayed Australian jobs, from manufacturing to defence and renewable energy," Mr Shorten said in a statement.

The Labor leader says instead of dealing with the real issues facing Australia, Mr Abbott and his ministers have been busy awarding a knighthood to Prince Philip, indulging on bizarre attacks on wind farms and the ABC, and leaking from cabinet about their colleagues woeful performances.

"Australians have learnt over the past two years that Tony Abbott is stuck in the past with no plan for the future - just a plan to keep his job," Mr Shorten says.