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For all the excitement, Labor's triumph seemed somehow old news, a foregone conclusion. Thanks to opinion polls, Australians had expected a Rudd victory for almost a year - and bet more than $7 million on the hunch. Since last December, when a demoralized Labor Party elected the former diplomat and...
A year ago, however, few but the fiercest Labor partisans thought any kind of victory was possible. The party was in shambles, limping from opinion-poll rubbishing to new leadership ballot and back again, and desperate enough to bet the house on a man who seemed to many a most...
"Today Australia has looked to the future," said the country's newly elected Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, claiming victory for his Labor Party for the first time since 1996. Poll after opinion poll had predicted a Labor triumph in national elections, but few had forecast its scale. Labor captured at...
As exultant Labor voters - "Eleven and a half years is just too long," many said of Howard's long run - cheered Rudd's victory speech, some observers wondered whether he'll maintain his Howard-like demeanor or whether, as left-wing commentator Robert Manne said during the campaign, "When he...
While many assume Howard's status as Prime Minister will save him on his own northern Sydney seat even if the Government is defeated, others see it differently. "There's nothing special about Bennelong," says election analyst Antony Green. "If the Government falls, my view is that Bennelong will fall...