Polls point to Howard victory
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Australians vote in less than 24 hours to choose a new government with most key pointers suggesting the incumbent conservative coalition of Prime Minister John Howard will be returned.
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The government of Prime Minister John Howard, a conservative and a supporter of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, appeared to hold a narrow lead in polls published less than a week before Australia's presidential election.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard won his fourth consecutive election last night, increasing his majority in a contest that was on a knife edge until the last minute.
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John Howard was embarking on a surprise fourth term as Australia&#39;s prime minister yesterday in defiance of polls that had predicted a general election win for the anti-war Labour opposition.
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Description: Australians go to the polls Saturday to choose a prime minster. The incumbent, conservative politician John Howard, supported President Bush&#39;s war on Iraq and contributed 2,000 Australian troops to the effort.
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Voting is underway in federal election booths across Australia, as 13 million Australians choose their next prime minister. The latest opinion polls published in the newspapers show the ruling coalition in
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of the staunchest U.S. allies in the war in Iraq, won re-election by a convincing margin on Saturday, despite what the Associated Press called "widespread public ...
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Australia's Labor opposition has edged back to an election-winning lead 11 days before the vote, according to a new poll just three days after a rival study gave the government a similar lead.
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Prime Minister John Howard is closing the gap on the opposition in Australia's election battle after pledging multi-billion dollar tax cuts, two opinion polls showed Friday.
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Two new polls showed Australia's conservative government and Labor opposition neck and neck after the first week of campaigning for the October 9 election.
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SYDNEY  - Australians went to the polls in national elections tipped to see the conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard, a key US ally in Iraq, beat off a strong challenge from the center-left Labor Party.
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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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Australian Prime Minister John Howard called a general election for October 9 with his conservative government trailing well behind the opposition Labor Party in opinion polls.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard insisted Monday that he could win upcoming elections despite a new opinion poll showing him losing further support to his centre-left opponent.
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STRONG polling by the Greens in key marginal electorates could deliver an election victory to Mark Latham, senior Liberal Party figures are warning, with Labor number crunchers seeing the same trend.
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Federal Labor has re-established a significant pre-election lead over the Government, according to a combined analysis of major opinion polls.
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The federal election race in Australia has been close during the first week of campaign, but polls indicated Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s ruling coalition has done slightly better.