Bid for the "grey vote" seen as election winner for Aussie opposition
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A multi-billion dollar campaign pledge to provide free hospital care for the elderly could provide Australian opposition leader Mark Latham with the boost he needs to carry October 9 national elections, analysts say.
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Australia's Greens -- dismissed as "kooky" by Prime Minister John Howard for a policy platform that includes state-funded sex-change operations -- may determine the outcome of upcoming elections as it draws disenchanted voters from mainstream parties.
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Most Australian major newspapers have expressed their preferences on Saturday&#39;s federal election, endorsing the ruling coalition returning to government.
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The government of Prime Minister John Howard had a narrow lead in opinion polls heading into the final week of campaigning ahead of the Australian federal election, but the opposition Labor party was narrowing the gap, according
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This morning, as Australians prepare to vote in their federal election, John Winston Howard looks increasingly likely to win a fourth term as Prime Minister, eclipsing Labor&#39;s Bob Hawke to become
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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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CANBERRA, Australia  - 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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CANBERRA: Australia&#39;s conservative government led opposition Labour on Monday ahead of a weekend election that one analyst said Prime Minister John Howard looked increasingly likely to win.
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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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Australia&#39;s government looked set for a fourth straight term, according to a poll trend released on the eve of Saturday&#39;s election, as rival leaders made last-minute pitches over the economy and the US-led Iraq war.
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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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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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Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who led the conservative Liberal-National coalition to power in 1996, said his government would win an election on Oct. 9. ``I think we&#39;ll make
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SYDNEY : Australian Prime Minister John Howard is widely expected to announce an election date this weekend, setting off a tight race between his conservative coalition and a resurgent Labor Party.
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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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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has called long-anticipated national elections for October 9. As in Spain earlier this year, he faces an opposition that has vowed to withdraw its troops from the American-led coalition in Iraq.
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October 9 election victory, a poll shows, as the environment began to emerge as another key campaign issue. strategists have been optimistic that Queensland would provide most of them,&quot; The Weekend Australian said.