SYDNEY (AFP) -- Australia's embattled Prime Minister John Howard Sunday challenged opinion polls which suggest he will lose forthcoming elections in a landslide, saying he sees no ""tribal hostility"" to his government.

Howard is facing overwhelming defeat in a November 24 poll, according to voter surveys which indicate Labor Party leader and former diplomat Kevin Rudd will win office.
But Howard, who has been crisis-crossing the country in a bid to shore up marginal seats for his Liberal/National coalition, said people are not angry at his government.
""I've been to election campaigns where the level of anger's been greater against the government,"" he told The Sun-Herald.
""There's not that, 'Go away from me, I'm not interested in you' type of thing.""
Howard, who has been in office for 11 years and is facing a resurgent center-left Labor, said every election had been different.
""This is not an election campaign with anything like what I would call tribal hostility to the government,"" he said.
""You will always find someone who says you're a disgrace ... but that's all part of the fun.""
According to a Morgan poll released Friday, Rudd is set to take 56 percent of the vote and form the first Labor government since Howard's 1996 victory.
Nationwide telephone polling of 550 voters found Rudd has a 12-point lead over Howard's projected 44 percent of the vote.
Labor is even further ahead in the most recent face-to-face Morgan survey. Of 990 voters interviewed on November 3 and 4, it gained 62 percent of the vote compared to the Liberal/National's 38 percent.
Pollster and analyst Gary Morgan said Rudd's strong performance in the opinion polls was not surprising, particularly as Howard campaigned on keeping interest rates low at the 2004 election, only for them to rise six times since.
But he said the government could not be written off because most people surveyed said they still believed the country was going in the right direction.
""A large number of people say they make up their mind in the polling booth,"" he told AFP.
As the campaign enters the final fortnight, both candidates are launching a final push for votes.
Howard is expected to outline more policies in the crucial state of Queensland on Monday, but after announcing 34 billion dollars (31 billion U.S.) in tax cuts on the first day of the campaign, is likely to be cautious.
""We'll have some well targeted, conservative and modest initiatives which will be aimed at keeping the economy strong,"" Finance Minister Nick Minchin told commercial television.
""Our whole focus is how to keep the economy strong, how do we keep inflation under control, how do we keep productivity high, and how do we keep raising living standards, and our whole focus in the launch will be on that.""
But Minchin said the government would not toughen its labour laws, which encourage workers to negotiate individual contracts with employers and which Labor has pledged to scrap.
Rudd, who also heads to Queensland next week, said his promises would be similarly restrained.