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Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he will never again run for the leadership of the Labor party, after yesterday declining to challenge Julia Gillard for the premiership.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a ballot for the leadership of the Labor party, after a senior member of her government said it can’t win elections due in six months from its current position.
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Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott, favored to win the Sept. 14 election, is unlikely to fulfill his pledge of scrapping the nation’s carbon price, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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One of the most immediately apparent features of Australia is its vast emptiness. A mere 23 million people are spread over a landmass the size of the continental U.S.
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Australia’s ruling Labor Party is leading the opposition coalition in voter support, buoyed by a surge of women coming out in favor of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, citing a Herald/Nielsen poll. Labor leads the Coalition 54 percent to 46 percent on a two-party preferred basis, according to a survey of 1,400 voters taken from July 20 to 22. Some 56 percent of voters approve of Gillard’s performance, compared with 43 percent who are happy with opposition leader Tony Abbott.
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Australia’s governing Labor Party would expand the powers of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority should it win re-election on Aug. 21, Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said.
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When Anna Bligh was 14, she was the only girl at Star of The Sea Convent school whose parents didn’t live together, after her mother left her alcoholic husband.
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Most Australian Labor lawmakers have swung their support behind deputy leader Julia Gillard ahead of her challenge to party leader and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd later today, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, without saying where it got the information. Key factions of the party persuaded a reluctant Gillard to stand, the newspaper reported.
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Kevin Rudd has become the first elected Australian Labor party prime minister to fail to complete his first term in office after standing down to allow Julia Gillard to take the role.
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Fallout from the second leadership contest for Australia’s ruling party in 20 months will leave the victor needing to overcome near-record low public support and resuscitate the government ahead of elections due next year.
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