Veteran Canberra journalist Niki Savva has pointed out a handy source of last week’s ridiculed calls made in cabinet to spark a double dissolution.

Savva refers to the source as ‘Mr Fixit’, which can be seen as a direct pairing with Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s interview on Sky News where he called himself “a fixer”.

Last week on Wednesday news emerged that the option of a double dissolution was raised among cabinet members as a way around dealing with blockages in the hostile Senate.

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With a finger touching the side of her nose, Savva told Insiders that during the meeting the double dissolution “definitely was raised.”

“No names no pack drill, but I’m told Mr Fixit thought it might have been a way of helping to fix things.

“It was raised in the leadership meeting in the morning and continued in cabinet later on but more over dinner,” she said.

The latest Newspoll released March 15 shows the Liberal Party would lose government if a poll was held that day with a two-party preferred outcome of 45 per cent to Labor’s 55 per cent.

During a double dissolution quotas for election to the Senate are nearly halved because all senate seats are up for election, so it becomes easier for minor and micro parties to be elected.

Last week Labor MP Doug Cameron told the Canberra press gallery “if you’re so stupid and so dopey as this Prime Minister and his ministerial team are, you can expect anything.”

Savva said Liberal leadership had a dim view of Mr Fixit’s suggestion. “Everybody had the same reaction as Doug Cameron, that it was a really dopey idea.”

“You know, Mr Fixit never gives up,” she said.

A government spokeswoman has said the government will run its full term.