Australia&#39;s poll race enters final and crucial lap
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THE fiercely-fought national election campaign in Australian has reached a turning point. This week the 13 million voters in the country are being presented with the final appeals by conservative
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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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CANBERRA, Australia  - Australians will vote on  Oct. 9 in a cliff-hanger election pitting the conservative  government against center-left Labor, with national security  and the economy as major issues, Prime Minister John Howard  said on Sunday.
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Polls have opened in Australia&#39;s general election. The campaign between the ruling conservatives and the left-of center opposition has been fought largely on domestic issues, such as the economy, health care and public education.
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Australia&#39;s 13 million voters have begun choosing a new government with the opposition Labor Party pinning any hope of victory on a late surge of &quot;undecideds&quot; swinging their way.
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THE federal election was as &quot;close as it gets&quot;, Prime Minister John Howard said today. Commenting on the latest Newspoll, Mr Howard said he believed the October 9 poll would go down to the wire.
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Australia&#39;s election campaign, which offers some parallels with the US presidential election, entered its final week Monday with Prime Minister John
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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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PRIME Minister John Howard will visit Brisbane today, and Opposition Leader Mark Latham will be in Melbourne, as the election campaign enters its final week.
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AUSTRALIA As the Oct. 9 election nears, polls show the rivals - the coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard, and Mark Latham&#39;s Labor party â-eck-and-neck.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard hit the campaign trail in the island state of Tasmania as his younger Labor rival made a final pitch to undecided voters to counter polls showing deep concerns about his inexperience.
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George Bush and John Kerry today enter the final week of a presidential race that is as deadlocked now as it was six months ago. With the country polarised and only a relative handful of voters still undecided
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AUSTRALIA will go the polls on October 9 after a six-week election campaign which Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Mark Latham agree will be about trust.
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Australia will go to the polls on October 9, Prime Minister John Howard has announced. Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s conservative government, which was elected in 1996, is seeking a fourth
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The Australian election campaign enters its final week with neither side holding a decisive lead and both major parties hoping big-spending promises to swinging voters will get them over the line, according to analysts.
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Australians have gone to the polls in national elections that will decide if their country remains in Iraq as staunch allies of the United States or pulls out by Christmas to switch its international focus to engagement with Asia.
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Will the deadly bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta create a &quot;Madrid effect&quot; in elections Down Under? The Oct. 9 vote is being hotly contested.