Ignoring split, labor makes election push
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Rival union federations have agreed to coordinate get-out-the-vote and other efforts for November.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S involvement in Iraq and terrorism strikes in Southeast Asia have made defence and national security potentially decisive issues for voters as polling day nears.
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Embattled Australian Prime Minister John Howard Tuesday vowed to fight this year&#39;s election despite reports that senior ministers have told the conservative leader his position is untenable.
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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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Australia's conservative government turned to wild pigs and pensions on Tuesday to woo support, as a poll showed it slipping further behind the Labor opposition ahead of a November election.
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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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Australians voted on Saturday in an election which offered the choice between a conservative government that unreservedly backs the United States and its Iraq war and a Labor opposition seeking stronger ties in Asia.
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A LABOR frontbencher today predicted Prime Minister John Howard would split his election policies into core and non-core promises and said the government was not straight with Australians.
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Australia's Labor opposition begins putting together a new team, after its damaging loss in this month's election.
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An Australian opinion poll has indicated a rise in support for the governing coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard. But two days in to the six-week election campaign the main opposition Labor Party headed
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The latest opinion polls published in the newspapers today show the Coalition in front on the primary vote, but preferences are running in Labor&#39;s favour.
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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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JOHN Howard&#39;s Coalition is clinging to a narrow election-winning lead despite strong support for Labor&#39;s Medicare package, an exclusive Herald Sun poll shows.
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Australia&#39;s opposition Labor party has opened up a commanding lead over the conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard with around two months to go to an election, a poll said Monday.
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John J. Sweeney is facing his first serious challenge as he seeks a fourth term -- and it is from his own base, the labor left. The AFL's 60 member unions will meet in July to choose the next president, but the struggle for votes has already begun.
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Australia&#39;s opposition Labor Party has promised sweeping tax breaks for low and middle income families if it wins the general election on 9 October.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard officially launched his government&#39;s campaign on Sunday for an Oct. 9 election with billion-dollar promises to woo voters and a defiant stand against terror.