Australia’s Labor Party Falls in Poll After Queensland Loss
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labor Party lost support in an opinion poll taken after a defeat in Queensland state, falling behind the opposition Liberal-National coalition by 20 percentage points.
Labor had 27 percent support in the Nielsen poll conducted March 29-31 and published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, compared with 47 percent for the coalition led by Tony Abbott. In the previous poll conducted Feb. 22-23, Labor had backing from 34 percent of respondents to 44 percent for Abbott’s group.