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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Sun Feb 26, 2012, 08:08 PM Feb 2012

Gillard Scores Resounding Win(Australian Labor Party leadership contest)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/

Julia Gillard has beaten her predecessor Kevin Rudd in a ballot for the federal Labor leadership by a margin of 73 votes to 29. Follow events as they happen on our live blog.

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Gillard Scores Resounding Win(Australian Labor Party leadership contest) (Original Post) Ken Burch Feb 2012 OP

Spam deleted by uppityperson (MIR Team) sfghrtjr Feb 2012 #1

Rudd has said he would retire if he lost. Swede Feb 2012 #2

Looks like he just ended his career, then. Ken Burch Feb 2012 #3

I've been in New Zealand the past two weeks... brooklynite Feb 2012 #4

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Swede

(33,233 posts)

2. Rudd has said he would retire if he lost.

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Sun Feb 26, 2012, 11:05 PM

Feb 2012

Now is not the time to be bickering with an election coming.

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

3. Looks like he just ended his career, then.

Reply to Swede (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 26, 2012, 11:08 PM

Feb 2012

Wonder why Rudd tried this? Did he actually think that he'd get Gillard to resign simply by publicly challenging her? Or was he promised support that didn't actually materialize?

Whatever it was, Rudd ended up getting played big time here. Is there a way to say that in Australian?

brooklynite

(94,489 posts)

4. I've been in New Zealand the past two weeks...

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 12:12 PM

Feb 2012

...where the Australian political story has been top news. The local papers are of the opinion that, whomever won the leadership contest, the Labour Party was likely to be heavily damaged going into next year's elections.

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