PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says her government has two major items to implement in 2013 before going to an election - introducing the National Disability Insurance Scheme and undertaking further major education reforms.
Ms Gillard took time off from her holidays to make an appearance at the Woodford Folk Festival on Sunday.
She says the government would continue to work to keep the economy strong and jobs rolling, but the other two issues were her "two big ambitions for 2013 before we get around to winning that election".
"I want to see us launch the National Disability Insurance Scheme on the first of July," she told the festival crowd.
"Then the other thing I've got a really big focus on is delivering on further education reforms.
"We had a fair old wake up call in international testing (recently). We can make sure our kids can get a world-class education."
She said the government had already made changes to a number of schools that had been struggling.
"What we've got to do now is take it and upscale and give it to every school and make a difference to every school.
"I'm absolutely determined that we're battling through on that."
A federal election is not due to until October next year, where Labor hopes to regain its majority.
Ms Gillard has led a minority government with the support of key independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott since 2010, but she said the situation had not dented her agenda.
She pointed to a number of achievements including introducing the carbon tax, putting healthcare on a sustainable footing, introducing the Queensland flood levy, education and aged care reforms. But did not mention asylum seeker policy.
"The really big decisions this government's taken would be effectively the same," she said.
"We would have done the same things as a majority government because they are the right thing to do.
She said the introduction of carbon pricing was in some ways made better by the negotiations needed in a minority government.
"It meant we could work across both houses - the house and the Senate - not just put something in the Senate and have it knocked over, which was the history of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, but actually work in a way which the proposition that went to the parliament was going to get carried."
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