The Prime Minister is capitalising on support gained by the My School website to pledge its expansion to more qualitative information in a second Rudd term.

He is also trying to load blame on Tony Abbott for the problems ahead in finding money for hospitals reform.

The Opposition's ''bloody-mindedness'' in blocking the means test on the health insurance rebate will cost $100 billion in revenue between now and 2050, funds desperately needed for health, Rudd says.

His basic point is right: there is no good reason for opposing this change when it returns to Parliament this week. The measure is soundly based. The Opposition says Rudd has broken a promise, but that should be Rudd's problem, not the Coalition's.

The Government is ensuring Abbott is under double pressure as Parliament returns - to produce a credible climate alternative to the emissions trading scheme and to defend the revenue gap caused by rejecting the rebate means test and explain how it would be filled.

Malcolm Turnbull proposed hiking the price of cigarettes. Health spokesman Peter Dutton said last night that remains Opposition policy - although Abbott is trying to avoid new and higher taxes. Abbott has to be very careful on the fiscal side. The Opposition is struggling on economic credibility, and its leader has enough problems with the climate issue not to want to be tagged as ''the big spender'', or worse, ''the big waster''.

Rudd has again said he will not go to an election before the second half of the year, although that could be a double dissolution. This gives Abbott longer to establish himself - and Labor longer to tear him down.