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Tight Australian election race enters final week
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August 15, 2010, Sunday
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A POLL published today pointed to a close result in next Saturday's election with the chance of a narrow opposition victory as Australia entered the final week of its tightest election race in many years.
The Aug. 21 vote will decide the fate of the government's 30 percent mining tax on big iron ore and coal projects, and the future of government plans for a US$33 billion national broadband network. The opposition has promised to abandon both.
Polls have shown the lead changing hands frequently. A Nielsen poll issued yesterday showed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor party regaining the lead.
But a poll taken in marginal seats by Galaxy and published today suggested the opposite.
Gillard said yesterday that she expected a "photo finish" and in an interview today she remained upbeat, accusing the opposition of a A$30 billion (US$26.79 billion) hole in its policy costings.
"I am feeling fine. I am feeling full of enthusiasm for the final week of the campaign," she told Channel Nine.
The Galaxy poll of 4,000 voters, published in Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, was conducted in 20 marginal seats. It put the opposition coalition ahead overall by 51.4 percent to Labor's 48.6 percent on a 'two-party' basis, eliminating minor parties under Australia's system of transferable voting.
It also showed the conservative opposition might win the 17 seats it needs to take power, or the 14 that would give it a chance of forming a minority government.
The Aug. 21 vote will decide the fate of the government's 30 percent mining tax on big iron ore and coal projects, and the future of government plans for a US$33 billion national broadband network. The opposition has promised to abandon both.
Polls have shown the lead changing hands frequently. A Nielsen poll issued yesterday showed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor party regaining the lead.
But a poll taken in marginal seats by Galaxy and published today suggested the opposite.
Gillard said yesterday that she expected a "photo finish" and in an interview today she remained upbeat, accusing the opposition of a A$30 billion (US$26.79 billion) hole in its policy costings.
"I am feeling fine. I am feeling full of enthusiasm for the final week of the campaign," she told Channel Nine.
The Galaxy poll of 4,000 voters, published in Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, was conducted in 20 marginal seats. It put the opposition coalition ahead overall by 51.4 percent to Labor's 48.6 percent on a 'two-party' basis, eliminating minor parties under Australia's system of transferable voting.
It also showed the conservative opposition might win the 17 seats it needs to take power, or the 14 that would give it a chance of forming a minority government.
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