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Australia PM Julia Gillard wins leadership vote: official
Feb 26, 2012 17:05 EST
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a Labor Party leadership vote over former premier Kevin Rudd by 71 votes to 31 on Monday, a party official said.
Australian PM Gillard wins leadership ballot
Feb 26, 2012 17:05 EST
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard convincingly won a leadership vote against rival Kevin Rudd Monday as opinion polls show her unpopular minority government was clawing back voter support despite the bitter and public leadership brawl.
Australia PM Gillard wins leadership ballot, government
Feb 26, 2012 17:05 EST
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard convincingly won a leadership vote against rival Kevin Rudd on Monday, just as opinion polls showed her unpopular minority government clawing back voter support despite the bitter fight to head the party.
Australia's Gillard set to win prime ministerial vote
Feb 26, 2012 01:50 EST
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was poised to win a leadership vote against rival Kevin Rudd on Monday despite polls showing a government under her leadership would be decimated at the next elections due by late 2013.
Calls for unity ahead of Australia PM vote
Feb 26, 2012 00:17 EST
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she was "very confident" of surviving a leadership challenge from Kevin Rudd -- the man she deposed -- calling on Labor to unite whatever the outcome.
Calls for unity ahead of Australia PM vote
Feb 25, 2012 22:43 EST
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she was "very confident" of surviving a leadership challenge from Kevin Rudd -- the man she deposed -- calling on Labor to unite whatever the outcome.
Australia's Rudd calls for unity ahead of PM vote
Feb 25, 2012 21:14 EST
Kevin Rudd said Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard would have his "unequivocal support" if she won an internal challenge for the leadership but talked up his prospects as MPs prepared to vote.
Polls back Australian PM Gillard's rival Rudd
Feb 25, 2012 01:31 EST
Kevin Rudd's bid to lead Australia again was boosted when opinion polls showed he remains more popular than Prime Minister Julia Gillard and likely Labor's best chance of winning an election.
Polls back Australian PM Gillard's rival Rudd
Feb 24, 2012 22:11 EST
Kevin Rudd's bid to lead Australia again won a boost Saturday when opinion polls showed he remains more popular with the public than his rival in next week's ballot, Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Asian shares pushed higher by China, US
Feb 24, 2012 05:05 EST
Asian shares rose strongly on Friday, pushed higher by changes in Chinese bank rules and gains on Wall Street.
Australia's Rudd to challenge Prime Minister Gillard
Feb 24, 2012 00:53 EST
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Kevin Rudd, who stepped down as Australia's foreign minister this week, said on Friday he would contest a leadership vote against Prime Minister Julia Gillard, bringing to a head a bitter leadership fight engulfing the minority government.
Australia's Rudd challenges PM in party vote
Feb 24, 2012 00:28 EST
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd confirmed Friday he will challenge his successor Julia Gillard to lead Australia's ruling party, saying she had lost voters' trust and would crash at the next election.
Rudd to challenge Australian PM Gillard
Feb 23, 2012 22:57 EST
Kevin Rudd on Friday announced he would challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the leadership of Australia's ruling party in a ballot on Monday.
Australia's Rudd to decide on leadership bid
Feb 23, 2012 21:43 EST
Kevin Rudd will decide Friday whether to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the leadership of Australia's ruling party as he lashed out at the tactics being used to discredit him.
Australia's Rudd to make leadership decision Friday
Feb 23, 2012 19:14 EST
Former Australian leader Kevin Rudd said he would decide Friday whether to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the leadership of the country's ruling party as he lashed out at the tactics being used to discredit him.
Asia shares mixed on eurozone worries
Feb 23, 2012 06:14 EST
Asian shares were mixed Thursday as concerns about Greece's debt crisis returned to worry investors but domestic factors also came into play.
Australian PM Gillard calls for leadership vote
Feb 23, 2012 01:47 EST
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dared her political rival, former foreign minister Kevin Rudd, to challenge her in a leadership vote next week, hoping to end infighting that threatens to sink the minority government and its reform agenda.
Australian PM calls leadership ballot
Feb 22, 2012 23:52 EST
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday called a ballot on the leadership of the ruling Labor party, bringing to a head an increasingly bitter and ugly row with predecessor Kevin Rudd.
Australian PM calls leadership ballot
Feb 22, 2012 18:44 EST
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday called a ballot on the leadership of the ruling Labor party, bringing to a head an ugly row with predecessor Kevin Rudd.
Australian PM Gillard calls leadership ballot
Feb 22, 2012 18:22 EST
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday announced a ballot for the Labor leadership and called on ex-leader Kevin Rudd, widely expected to challenge, to accept its outcome as final.
