Latham Bids to Become Australia&#39;s Youngest Leader in 80 Years
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Mark Latham has made headlines for breaking a taxi driver&#39;s arm and calling George W. Bush ``the most incompetent and dangerous president in living history.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s Liberal-National coalition is poised to win a fourth term in office after pledging to extend 13 years of economic growth, keep interest rates low, cut taxes and increase spending.
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Australians are due to go to the polls on 9 October, to elect their new prime minister. According to opinion polls, current leader John Howard is neck and neck with opposition Labor leader Mark Latham.
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SYDNEY - Prime Minister John Howard looks set to become Australia&#39;s most powerful leader for a generation, with his easy election victory effectively giving him control of both Houses of Parliament and letting him pursue a stalled conservative agenda.
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The PM&#39;s populism, and his place in history, has been challenged by Mark Latham, writes Robert Manne. One of the most curious features of the current election campaign auction - where the bids of both main
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Britain's Amir Khan will bid to become boxing's youngest Olympic gold medallist since 1952 on Sunday.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S future has been put at risk by its political leaders in this grubby, greedy election campaign. John Howard has run on a platform of profligacy, renouncing his claims as an advocate of low-taxing small government.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard outlined his vision for a fourth term as a new poll showed voters warming to the &quot;soft focus&quot; leadership of the opposition Labor Party's Mark Latham.
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PRIME Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Mark Latham today began a last-minute pitch for votes, as polls and newspaper editorials pointed to a coalition win in tomorrow&#39;s federal election.
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OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham today praised his wife Janine Lacy for taking centre stage at Labor&#39;s official campaign launch. Ms Lacy took the extraordinary step of introducing her husband at the ALP launch
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has decided against retiring and will lead his Liberal Party into elections next year in a bid for a fifth term, backbenchers have said.
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Latham may be succeeding in his audacious bid to drag older voters away from the PM, writes Shaun Carney. You can often get a sense of how political parties view their own prospects at an election through their advertising in the final week of a campaign.
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OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham had failed to outline a plan for future management of the national economy in his speech at Labor&#39;s campaign launch yesterday, Prime Minister John Howard said.
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LABOR has failed to make inroads in Coalition marginal seats, casting doubt on its chances of winning Saturday&#39;s election. An exclusive Newspoll shows the Coalition hanging on to its lead in the seats Mark Latham must win.
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Chicago Tribune - John Howard appears poised to become Australia's second-longest serving prime minister when the country goes to the polls Saturday, despite criticism over the war in Iraq and his dwindling credibility.
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Labor leader Mark Latham&#39;s plans for older Australians has received a mixed reaction from interest groups. At Labor&#39;s campaign launch yesterday, he promised to pay for the hospital costs of all Australians
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After a crushing fourth-term victory in the October election Prime Minister John Howard will pass another milestone in his 30 year political career when he becomes Australia's second-longest serving prime minister.