There's speculation New South Wales premier Morris Iemma will be forced out of the top job in the wake of another bad poll result against the state government.
The latest Herald-Taverner poll showed Labor was trailing the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis 56 to 44 percent.
Opposition leader Barry O'Farrell said a leadership challenge would do little to fix transport bottlenecks and parliamentary bungles seen in recent weeks.
"Morris Iemma is struggling its clear the ministers he's put into key portfolios like Reba Mar and Kevin Green aren't up to the job," Mr O'Farrell sai.
He said improvements to the situation would only happen if changes to the portfolios were made.
"But changing deckchairs on this 'Labor Titanic' isn't going to give people what they want," he said.
But senior government ministers are standing by their embattled premier.
Labor frontbencher Linda Burney said government MPs have complete faith in the premier.
She said the notion that the government was getting the jitters in its support for the premier was "an imagination".