Australia Vote Battle Begins With Profits at Stake
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Australians will vote in a national election on Aug. 21 that will decide whether mining companies share more of their wealth, who pays to clean up the environment and if the first female prime minister can keep her job.
The latest poll shows Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labor party with an election-winning lead over Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition. Gillard, who ousted former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last month, set the date for the election on July 17, vowing to maintain the economic growth that helped skirt the global recession while improving education and health care.