Surveys have been suggesting that Prime Minister Julia Gillard will not carry the Labor Party to victory 2013, yet all is not lost for the government as voters pointed to a one man they think is the fittest to lead the nation - Kevin Rudd.

Mr Rudd, however, has been pushed out of Labor's leadership earlier this year following his failed attempt to unseat Ms Gillard, the development attesting to the reality that while the former prime minister seems to command support from the public, his own party is unwilling to shore up its standing with him at the helm.

Labor, according to Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, will not abandon its current leader despite the likelihood that with Ms Gillard at the forefront the party can very well forego another shot in federal rule next year.

Series of polls have been calling Labor's attention that defeat is all spelled out for the party that came to power in 2007 with tremendous public support, a fortune that gradually reversed notwithstanding the government's considerable success in keeping the domestic economy afloat while the rest of the world bore the brunt of the global financial crisis in 2008.

Critics said that Ms Gillard failed to deliver the all important message to the Australian public - that she means business and the policies she had mapped for the government were meant to sustain the economic gains that the country has been collecting in the past years.

Ms Roxon complained on Monday that as shown by the Nielsen survey, voters have overlooked the competence and sincerity of the current Labor leader and her ability to keep the party together amidst the restiveness that lingered since Mr Rudd was ousted in June 2010.

Notwithstanding, voters' predilection at this time gravitates to the Coalition, which benefitted on perceptions that Labor has been mishandling the economy and its core economic program was anchored on divisive tax programs, mainly the fixed-price carbon tax and the minerals resource rent tax, and runaway spending habits.

The Liberal opposition has naturally picked up on the frustrations expressed by the public, with Opposition leader Tony Abbott almost always including on his talks vows to repeal what he called damaging policies espoused by Ms Gillard.

Mr Abbott has stressed that his first order of business in the event the Coalition is propelled to the federal government next year is the junking of the carbon tax and the MRRT.

The $36-billion national broadband network, already on initial roll out stage, will also be scrapped, he added, labelling the project as a waste of money.

His core agenda: "We'll get taxes down, we'll get spending down and that can take the pressure off interest rates," which he told Fairfax were "very, very positive agenda."

But as Nielsen showed, voters seemed unimpressed as Mr Abbott is seen in the same light as Ms Gillard - both have been given skyrocketing dissatisfaction ratings, which left the impression that none of the two are sure winners.

According to Nielsen, more pluses were attributed by the public to former leaders of Labor and the Liberals, meaning anytime of the day Mr Rudd will beat Ms Gillard while Malcolm Turnbull will triumph over Mr Abbott.

The biggest winner of them all is Mr Rudd, who Nielsen said, enjoys a wide margin of preference among voters at 59 per cent, with the numbers of current prime minister and the Liberal headliner not even measuring up.

But will the former Labor leader pick up the cue and rescue his party from imminent destruction?

Mr Rudd will not even lift a finger, according to a Fairfax report, which cited an unidentified Labor source closely aligned with the former Foreign Minister.

The insider hinted too that if Labor appears to be headed on certain doom, Mr Rudd, will happily stay on the backbench at the moment.