As alarm grows within the coalition over One Nation's rise in the polls, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor rejected suggestions the party could do a deal with Pauline Hanson to avoid running competing candidates in select seats.
With polls showing the combined One Nation, Liberal and National primary vote at almost 50 per cent, such a deal would avoid splitting right-party support and bolster the chance of a Labor defeat at the next federal election.
"No, there's no plan to carve up seats. We won't be doing that," Mr Taylor told ABC News Breakfast on Thursday.
"What we will be doing is focusing on a Labor government that's taking this country in the wrong direction with higher taxes, with less houses, with immigration that has not been in line with our housing supply, and with an energy system that is broken.''
Mr Taylor's comments come after The Australian reported Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin urged his party to discuss working with One Nation to avoid competing against each other.
Opposition defence spokesman James Paterson also rebuffed Mr Pasin's proposal.
"I am not interested in dividing the spoils with another political party two years out from the election, and frankly, hitching our wagon to their brand with all the risks that that entails between now and then," he told ABC radio.
Mr Taylor has previously left the door open to preferencing One Nation, although his party remains split on that option.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott, who recently resurrected his political career as Liberal Party president, endorsed preferencing One Nation.
The rise of One Nation in the polls represents an existential threat to the coalition, with Newspoll showing their primary vote collapsing to 18 per cent.
But the most recent polls, including from Newspoll, Redbridge, YouGov and DemosAU, show One Nation as the most popular political party in the country - a major concern for Labor as well.
Labor has increasingly sought to portray One Nation and the coalition as one and the same.
The main distinction in Australian politics was between three right-wing parties intent on stoking economic and social division and a Labor party determined to reject it, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said in an address to the ALP National Policy Forum in Sydney.
"The irony of their position is they want to change the government in order to leave everything as it is – a truly absurd proposition," he said.
