Get Liberal house in order: Vic leader

Victorian Liberals want their federal colleagues to get their house in order and back to work.

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy says the state Liberals knuckled down and stayed unified after their election defeat.

"The federal parliamentary party needs to get their house in order and then they need to focus on the real issues that matter to Australia, which is, of course, cleaning up the mess the Labor Party left in 2013," Mr Guy told reporters on Monday.

Mr Guy refused, when pressed, to say if Tony Abbott was the man to clean up that mess.

"He is the prime minister, he needs to get on with the job, and his party need to support him," he said.

Mr Abbott said Victorians had elected Labor in a fit of "absent-mindedness", but Mr Guy didn't make any excuses for the loss.

"My view is I don't believe the electorate ever gets it wrong, and we are learning the lessons of why we have been defeated at the election in November," he said.