Voters Head to the Polls in Australia Election

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Voters Head to the Polls in Australia Election

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians voted on Saturday in an election which offered the choice between a conservative government that unreservedly backs the United States and its Iraq war and a Labor opposition seeking stronger ties in Asia.
The Reuters Poll Trend showed on Friday the Liberal/National coalition government with a 1.2 point lead over center-left Labor on a two-party preferred basis, where minor party preferences are distributed to major parties until a winner is declared.

Australia's 13 million voters will cast their ballots at more than 7,000 voting stations from the dusty outback to the Antarctic.

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