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...north, in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, local Julian MacLulich is waiting "with bated breath" to see how far Prime Minister John Howard and his rival Mark Latham are willing to go to save the forests he's heard much about. Though he likes the Howard government's economic record, MacLulich still hasn't decided who he'll vote for. When he does, he says, the fate of Tasmania's old-growth forests will be as important in his choice as the economy. He's waiting to be swayed. "Most people want to do the right thing, wherever...
...Coalition holding none of the five House of Representatives seats in Tasmania. If he offers a package to save the forests, Economou believes, "he'll write Tasmania off." Labor, meanwhile, has the trickier task of satisfying traditional voter bases in seats like Braddon and also wooing mainlanders like MacLulich. But the momentum is there: some of the strongest applause from the party faithful at the Sept. 29 Labor campaign launch came for Latham's promise to detail a policy before the election. Party strategists know that at this poll Tasmanian forests matter, not only because of the dogged campaign...
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