Two of the four key Independent MPs negotiating with federal Labor and the Coalition, Tony Windsor and Andrew Wilkie, say they are aiming to decide this week who they will support to form a minority government.

''We're entering into a range of meetings this week,'' Mr Windsor said in a television interview yesterday.

Mr Wilkie also indicated he intended to reach a decision ''very soon''.

''I would hope to make my decision Tuesday or Wednesday that's what the people want,'' he said.

''I'm well aware that stability is very important, there is already a restlessness in the community that it's over a week since the election and we're still to know who is going to govern Australia for the next three years.''

Mr Wilkie said he would be ''very surprised'' if the political impasse took more than a fortnight to resolve.

He said he did not support the idea that voters should return to the polls to produce a more decisive outcome.

''The people of Australia have spoken. And 150 politicians that are in the process of being elected, we are what 150 electorates decided they want. It's up to us to make it work,'' he said.

Mr Windsor agreed it would be preferable to avoid a new election and suggested there was only ''a 10 per cent chance''' that Australians would go back to the polls.

Mr Windsor and fellow incumbent Independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Bob Katter will return to Canberra today to hold talks with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

For more on this story, including details of how the independents have worked together to manage negotiations, see the print edition of today's Canberra Times.