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...week brought no clear front runner, and some of its strangest images yet, as Howard, reviled by many workers as a career union buster, was cheered in Tasmania by members of one of the nation's toughest unions, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. "Rats in the ranks," Labor candidate for Bowman and Australian Services Union organizer Donna Webster fumed about the cfmeu. "That was an absolute cop-out." But for the P.M., it was an effective political strike: after hinting in the first week of the campaign he would move on the contentious issue of logging...
...last formal campaign speech, Latham sought again to distance himself from the risk-taking and record of past Labor administrations. "No adventurism. No cockiness. Straight down to work, putting our plans into place." In the end it wasn't enough; Australians weren't convinced they needed a change. At the Howard celebration on Saturday night, businesswoman Sarina Russo summed up the mood: "When you're getting such great results, why change anything?" The swelling Green vote - set to be around 7%, compared with 5% last time - suggests many Australians want more attention paid to issues such as the environment, processing...
...parties go, this is a dud. The Labor faithful began milling outside a function room at Mount Pritchard Community Club, in Sydney's outer west, shortly before 7 p.m. By the time some 200 of them are allowed inside, the writing's on the wall. It's like a rugby match where fans show up thinking their team is a chance, only to see them concede three tries in the first five minutes. Within minutes of polls closing on the mainland, it's clear Labor, which needs an extra 13 seats, has lost two - Bass and Braddon - in Tasmania...
...wait. The blonde, spirited Member for Fowler, Julia Irwin, tries to lift the mood with an address in which she lauds her leader as someone "who never stands behind people, nor in front of them - he stands side by side with them." She gets a cheer, but former Labor leader Kim Beazley draws groans while being interviewed on the screen, when he argues that the result is better than some internal polls had forecast; he even manages to squeeze in the word "terrific...
...Among the crowd - mostly volunteers and local branch members - the inclination is to face up to a disastrous result rather than spin it. Self-described "Labor stalwart" Phil Fullerton says Latham hadn't been long enough in the job to convince enough people he was ready for the big one. "A lot of people like John Howard," he adds. "I don't know why. But they do." Young father Scott Ison says the P.M. had appealed successfully to Australians' basest instincts, adding: "People would struggle to agree on one theme he believes in." Many are convinced that ads predicting interest...