Australia's Gov't Targets Security in Election Bid
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard officially launched his government's campaign on Sunday for an Oct. 9 election with billion-dollar promises to woo voters and a defiant stand against terror.
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SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister John Howard assured Indonesia on Tuesday that Australia is unlikely to launch a preemptive attack on its neighbor to take out a terrorist target.
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Australia is steeling itself for a bitter, big-spending final week of the election campaign, underscored by an even more fervent scare campaign to frighten voters into declaring themselves
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Australians will vote on October 9 in an election pitting the conservative government against centre-left Labor, with national security and the economy as major issues.
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Australia's government looked set for a  fourth straight term, according to a poll trend released on the  eve of Saturday's election, as rival leaders made last-minute  pitches over the economy and the U.S.-led Iraq war.
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Australia plans to strengthen its coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia.
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Australia will spend 591 million dollars (460 million US) boosting security at its overseas missions in the aftermath of the Jakarta embassy bombing in September, the government said.
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SYDNEY : Australia will spend 591 million dollars (460 million US) boosting security at its overseas missions in the aftermath of the Jakarta embassy bombing in September, the government said.
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: Australia will enjoy a close security relationship with Indonesia if former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has won presidential elections there as early returns indicate, Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday.
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Prime Minister John Howard says Australians will head to the ballot boxes on October 9, in a race that is seen as being the closest in 30 years.
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Australiaâs prime minister has said another terror attack in Southeast Asia was âa near inevitabilityâ and promised to pump millions of dollars into combating the threat if he retains office in October elections, including basing counter-terrorism
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The Australian government, re-elected with an increased majority two weeks ago, aims to toughen its counter-terrorism laws after previous efforts were stalled in the Senate, the attorney general said.
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Australian politicians set off on a marathon campaign Monday for an election that will focus on the way forward for one of the world's strongest economies, the credibility of candidates and support for the Iraq war.
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Australia&#39;s prime minister stepped up a phoney election campaign on Saturday amid speculation he could soon call for October polls and renewed claims he lied to voters before his 2001 re-election.
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Prime Minister John Howard's government warned that Australia could become a terrorist target during a six-week election campaign that began Monday, with the war on terror and the nation's troop deployment in Iraq already taking center stage.
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Embattled Australian Prime Minister John Howard Tuesday vowed to fight this year&#39;s election despite reports senior ministers have told the conservative leader his position in untenable.
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SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a pre-election rise in military spending on Tuesday, as a former US presidential adviser warned about the danger of a Spanish-style terror attack in the lead up to the October 9 poll.