Geoff Walsh: ALP just doesn&#39;t have the numbers
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DESPITE this week&#39;s Newspoll predicting an ALP win, Labor hardheads remain far from convinced October 9 will see a change of government.
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MARK COLVIN: Qantas might have posted yet another record profit, but the national carrier&#39;s boss, Geoff Dixon, claims earnings are being hampered by unfair subsidies for international carriers allowed to fly in and out of Australia.
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Prime Minister John Howard doesn&#39;t have one new ``Tampa&#39;&#39; heading into next month&#39;s Australian election, but two. The MV Tampa was the vessel Howard&#39;s party rode to victory in November 2001, figuratively speaking.
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Treasurer Peter Costello said Labor&#39;s Medicare Gold policy for older Australians would never be implemented. Mr Costello predicted the cost of Labor&#39;s plan for free hospital coverage for all people aged 75
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Hong Kong&#39;s pro-democracy politicians failed to increased their numbers in the legislature by as much as expected in an election with a record turnout, defusing the outcry for China to allow fuller elections.
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SYDNEY, Australia Australian Labor Party members say Mark Latham should keep leading the group despite losing yesterday&#39;s election to the incumbent prime minister.
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Australia&#39;s Federal Opposition Labor party leader has seized on the question of whether the Prime Minister, John Howard, will serve a full three year term if the Coalition wins the October election.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s governing Liberal Party took a slight lead in nationwide elections Saturday, according to initial results, an early sign that one of President Bush&#39;s most ardent allies in the Iraq war may
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By early Sunday night it remained unclear whether the opposition had mustered the 3.76 million votes it needed.
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The leading candidates in Australia&#39;s national elections have very different positions on the country&#39;s role in the war on terror.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard is seeking a fourth term in power at today&#39;s election, promising to extend 13 years of economic growth and keep mortgage rates low.
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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.
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Australia&#39;s conservative government has edged ahead of the opposition Labour party, according to an opinion poll as the six-week campaign for an October 9 vote reaches the half-way point.
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Record deficits are threatening our economy and future generations, but neither Bush nor Kerry are addressing that reality. Election seasons rarely produce much honest talk about budgets and taxes, but the
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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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With his own political mentor Gough Whitlam now conceding that Labor&#39;s got little chance of winning the next election, Mark Latham faces a tough climb out of the political quicksand.
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The race for governor of Washington was still undecided Saturday as a recount got under way. When all the state's counties reported their tallies last Wednesday, Republican Dino Rossi had only 261 more votes than Democrat Christine Gregoire, out of some 2.8 million ballots. State law requires a machine recount when the margin is less than 2,000 votes.