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	Australian parliament in row over Iraq
		Howard committed Australia to the March 2003 invasion on the basis Saddam Hussein was developing and harboring weapons of mass destruction.
		Australia's contribution was a token 2,000 troops, but it added credibility for the case waged by the United States and Britain as to the need for war.
		'That is the central failure of the Leader of the Opposition's speech.
	www.australiannews.net /story/208224 (791 words)

	Leader of the Opposition - Australia Votes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		This post given to the leader of a party who holds a majority of the non-government seats in the chamber, is a difficult and sometimes futile position.
		The leader of the opposition has none of the resources of government, yet must work with and against the government on the passage of legislation and come election time is expected to put forward policies equal to those of the government in order to attempt to win the election.
		Federally the leader of the opposition is drawn from either Labor or Liberal, depending on who is in power.
	users.bigpond.net.au /drshrink/ozvotes/who/lop.htm (349 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Australian opposition votes for new leader
		Lawmakers from Australia's main opposition Labor Party have voted for Kevin Rudd to lead the party.
		The former opposition leader broke down during a media conference following the vote, saying that "family is everything".
		Australia's prime minister, John Howard, has congratulated the new leader of the federal opposition.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1803323.htm (370 words)

	Leader of the Opposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government.
		The Leader of the Opposition is invariably seen as the alternative Prime Minister to the present incumbent, and heads a rival alternative government known as the Shadow Cabinet or Opposition Front Bench.
		In many Commonwealth Realm monarchies, the full title is Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition (115 words)

	Opposition (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By convention, the Opposition Leader comes from the House of Representatives, as does the deputy, although the Government and Opposition will also both have leaders in the Senate.
		The present Opposition at a Federal level is the Australian Labor Party led by Kevin Rudd.
		The current leader of the Opposition in the Senate is Senator Chris Evans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opposition_(Australia) (246 words)

	CNN.com - Latham softens Iraq troop policy - Jul 12, 2004
		Australia contributed around 2,000 troops, fighter jets and naval vessels to the initial invasion of Iraq last year, and around 850 soldiers remain there indefinitely.
		Latham, who became Labor leader in December, is neck and neck with Howard in the opinion polls.
		The latest Newspoll of voting intentions shows the two-party preferred vote in the first week of July was 51 percent for Labor and 49 percent for the Liberal coalition.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/07/12/iraq.australia.latham (608 words)

	Australia: state opposition leader resigns amid media furore
		The sudden resignation last week of John Brogden, the leader of Prime Minister John Howard’s Liberal Party in the state of New South Wales, and his attempted suicide two days later has provided a revealing glimpse into the decayed state of official politics in Australia.
		Howard has survived through the lack of any opposition from Labor and the shameless use of fear campaigns over refugees, terrorism and, at the last elections, the prospect of rising interest rates.
		Brogden himself was installed as state Liberal leader by an internal “coup” in 2002 in an attempt to bolster the party’s disastrous electoral stocks.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/brog-s07.shtml (1689 words)

	Australia News
		The leader of Fiji's coup received signs of domestic support from tribal chiefs and a major opposition party Friday, but the British Commonwealth suspended the Pacific island nation in the latest international repudiation of the caretaker government.
		Australia's main opposition party on Monday elected a new leader in a bid to end Prime Minister John Howard's 11-year winning streak.
		Australia's armed forces said an army Blackhawk helicopter had been "lost" on Wednesday near Fiji, where navy ships have been positioned to evacuate Australians in the event of a coup.
	www.wtopnews.com /index.php?nid=390 (529 words)

	Australian opposition party elects new leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		CANBERRA, Australia, Dec 04, 2006 (AP Worldstream via COMTEX) -- Australia's new opposition leader, a former diplomat to Beijing who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, vowed Monday his long-standing interest in China would not undermine his nation's alliance with the United States.
		China is a growing trading partner of Australia which feeds much of the Chinese industrial demand for iron ore, coal, natural gas and soon, uranium.
		Howard predicted that Labor's already competitive standing in the polls would be boosted in the short term because of the novelty of a new leader.
	news.tradingcharts.com /futures/3/4/86479643.html (561 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Australia opposition elects leader
		The surprise result saw Mr Latham beat former leader Kim Beazley by 47 to 45.
		The vote came after leader Simon Crean resigned last week following a collapse in support from party members in the run-up to next year's election.
		The election of Mr Latham has prompted speculation that the prime minister, John Howard, could call an early election to take advantage of the new opposition leader's relative inexperience.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3255004.stm (379 words)

	The Sydney News.Net
		Australia's James Nitties shot an 8-under 64 Thursday to lead the Australian PGA Championship by one stroke over New Zealand's Brad Iles after the first...
		Australia have made two changes to their squad for the third Ashes Test in Perth on 14 December.
		Australia and New Zealand slapped a travel ban and other sanctions against Fiji's military on Tuesday after the army grabbed power in a coup and dismissed the government.
	thesydneynews.net (1058 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Australia's opposition leader resigns
		The leader of Australia's opposition Labor Party, Mark Latham, has resigned, saying he is too unwell to continue in the position.
		A former leader of the Labor Party, Kim Beazley, has announced he will again stand for the Labor leadership, promising to unify the party.
		Meanwhile, Australia's opposition Foreign Affairs spokesman, Kevin Rudd, has wished Mr Latham all the best.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1284129.htm (417 words)

	CNN.com - Australian opposition leader quits - Jan 18, 2005
		Mark Latham has resigned as leader of the ALP and is leaving politics.
		It would be a disastrous decision for the leader of a great country like Australia to say that, 'We're pulling out,'" Bush said after being questioned on Latham's foreign affair policies last year.
		Senior Labor figures now say former opposition leader Kim Beazley, who led Labor to election defeats in 1998 and 2001, will replace Latham, while some believe Labor frontbencher Kevin Rudd is a possibility.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/australia.latham (327 words)

	Australia's opposition elects new leader _Asia Pacific—China Economic Net
		The ballot was held as Beazley, a 25-year parliamentary veteran who was defeated by Prime Minister John Howard in the elections in1998 and 2001, faces pressure and concerns that he can not defeat Howard in the general election next year.
		At his first news conference as federal opposition leader soon after his election, Rudd promised a new style of leadership for Labor.
		He described the climate change as a fork in the road, vowing to tackle the problem which the Howard government is believed to have failed to deal with properly.
	en.ce.cn /World/Asia-Pacific/200612/05/t20061205_9673481.shtml (412 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Kim Beazley - Member for Brand
		In March 1996, Kim became Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Federal Labor Party.
		On 15 February 1988, Kim Beazley was appointed government leader in the House of Representatives and vice-president of the Executive Council.
		Following the 2001 election Kim resigned as Leader of the Opposition on 22 November, 2001.
	www.alp.org.au /people/wa/beazley_kim.php (627 words)

	ABC News: Australian Opposition Party Taps Leader
		Rudd, a former diplomat to Beijing and Stockholm, is the center-left party's fourth leader in as many years.
		Howard, who first led his center-right coalition to victory in 1996, is the second-longest serving prime minister in the federal parliament's 105-year history.
		He will stand for his fifth three-year term as national leader next year on an election date that is yet to be set.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2697951 (221 words)

	USATODAY.com - Australian leader facing vote in October (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Howard, whose conservative coalition comfortably won a third, three-year term in November 2001 — in the aftermath of the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks in the United States — declared Sunday that trust will be the dominant issue of the election campaign.
		But the Labor Party opposition is campaigning hard on opinion polls that suggest most Australians believe Howard misled them about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction — one of the key justifications he gave for Australia's joining the invasion.
		He argues that Australia won respect around the world through its Iraq policy and involvement in the war on terror.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-08-29-australia-elections_x.htm (675 words)

	Australia's Opposition Leader Says He Would Pull Troops Out of Iraq -- 03/24/2004
		Labor leader Mark Latham's comments drew a warning from the government Wednesday about the dangers of signaling to terrorists that their campaign is succeeding.
		Australia now has around 850 army, navy and air force personnel in Iraq, as part of the post-war rebuilding operation, and the government has not set a deadline on the deployment.
		Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened Australia by name in past years, in warnings that condemned Australia for its role in East Timor - Canberra led a peacekeeping mission that oversaw the territory's independence from Muslim Indonesia - and more recently, for its support for the war in Iraq.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200403\FOR20040324c.html (1117 words)

	CNN.com - Australian PM contender vows pullout - Apr 7, 2004
		Australia has about 850 military personnel supporting the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
		Howard's government is seeking to win a record fourth consecutive term, but the coalition's close relationship to the Bush administration could be a negative factor, with Howard having to defend his decision to send troops and equipment to the invasion of Iraq.
		Australia's economy has grown steadily under the coalition's stewardship.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/australia.latham (560 words)

	Australia Recognizes the Armenian Genocide
		The Motion was moved by the Opposition Leader, the Peter Collins Member of Parliament and Queens Council, who is the Member for Willoughby.
		Reflecting the bi-partisan support of the motion, the Leader of the NSW State Opposition, Mr Peter Collins Q.C. (Member for Willoughby) and mover of last year's Armenian Genocide Commemorative Motion, also made a statement to the Parliament strongly endorsing the motion moved by the Member for Gladesville.
		SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Dedication and unveiling of the Armenian Genocide Memorial within the grounds of the New South Wales Parliament took place during an official ceremony held on the evening of Friday 5 March 1999.
	www.cilicia.com /armo10i_australia.html (1192 words)

	Australian political leader says former Midnight Oil singer will be promoted - Asia - Pacific - International Herald ...
		CANBERRA, Australia: Former Midnight Oil front man Peter Garrett will be promoted to a senior political role this week role in a new high point of a fledgling career in federal politics, the opposition leader said Tuesday.
		Garrett, the towering baldheaded lead singer renowned for his politically pointed lyrics, was elected to a Sydney electorate for the center-left Labor Party in October 2004.
		Kevin Rudd, who was elected party leader at a ballot Monday, said Tuesday he was determined to include the 53-year-old cruisading conservationist in his first shadow ministry which will be named Thursday.
	iht.com /articles/ap/2006/12/04/asia/AS_POL_Australia_Opposition.php (507 words)

	Oz Opposition Leader Plans To Pull Troops From Iraq
		The comments were an invitation to terrorists to "belt" Australia, he said.
		Mr Latham's remarks are understood to have sparked serious concern and surprise in Washington, which Mr Latham plans to visit before the election to demonstrate his commitment to the US alliance.
		Mr Schieffer said he did not think Australia pulling out of Iraq could have positive consequences for its relationship with the US and risked damage to the alliance.
	www.rense.com /general50/ozz.htm (764 words)

	Chaudhry unlikely to be Fiji's leader of opposition - India News
		Suva (Fiji) - Fiji's President Ratu Josefa Iloilo is likely to declare the name of the leader of the opposition in the country's newly elected parliament Wednesday.
		This comes in the face of reports that Chaudhry, whose party has been allotted nine berths in the new cabinet, was also keen for the opposition leader's post.
		Beddoes is likely to be named as the leader of the opposition only after the authorities are convinced that the UPP has completely unhinged itself from the agreement with FLP.
	www.indiaenews.com /australia/20060530/9604.htm (450 words)

	Crosswalk.com
		Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - The Iraq war and Australia's involvement in it was "a mistake," according to the leader of Australia's official opposition party, who hopes to succeed U.S. ally John Howard as prime minister.
		Mark Latham was elected leader of the opposition Labor Party last December, and opinion polls suggest that he holds a significantly better chance of ousting Howard than did the man he replaced.
		In his early days as Labor leader, Latham sought to distance himself from some controversial earlier positions, including his stated view that President Bush was "the most incompetent and dangerous president in living memory."
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1240591.html?view=print (1238 words)

	Chaudhry now wants to be Fiji's leader of opposition - India News
		Suva (Fiji) - In another twist in the ongoing drama of government formation in Fiji, Fiji Labour Party (FLP) leader and former Indo-Fijian prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry has said he wants to be leader of the opposition while having his own party MPs as members of the new multiparty cabinet.
		Reports here said Chaudhry's new wish contradicts his stand in 2002 when he had refused to take up the opposition leader's post saying his party was waiting to join the new government.
		Fiji TV showed a signed statement by Chaudhry in 2002 in reply to President Ratu Josefa Iloilo's letter inviting him to become the leader of the opposition.
	www.indiaenews.com /australia/20060529/9502.htm (522 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Australian opposition leader to stay as party chief
		Australia's opposition leader, Kim Beazley, says he will lead his Labor Party to the next election, expected in 2007.
		Mr Beazley says he has the experience that the public look for in a leader.
		He says he is focussed on fighting the government on a range of issues including interest rates, climate change and industrial relations.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1792583.htm (233 words)

	Home - Liberal Party SA
		Information obtained by the Opposition indicates that the estimated cost of the South Road/Anzac Highway underpass is likely to be just short of $120 million, a massive increase on the $65 million originally set aside before the election.
		Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that the retirement of Auditor-General Ken MacPherson in two months (February 2007) time should see the end of the escalating dispute with the Director of Public Prosecutions.
		Three Bills introduced by the Opposition to allow for the increased use of recycled and non-mains water have been voted against by Labor in State Parliament.
	www.saliberals.org.au (139 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Australian Opposition Leader and Bush Critic Resigns
		Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - Australia's official opposition leader, who less than four months ago was vowing to replace Prime Minister John Howard and pull Australia out of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, resigned on Tuesday.
		Citing ill health, Mark Latham said he would quit both as leader of the Labor Party and as a member of Australia's federal parliament.
		Tuesday's announcement was an ignominious one for a politician who soared to the helm of his party a year ago, amid predictions that he would end the conservative Howard's eight-year reign.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1307678.html (430 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Australia's largest opposition party elects new leader
		Kevin Rudd was elected Monday the new leader of the Australian Labor Party, the country's largest opposition party, according to the party's website.
		Rudd beat Kim Beazley by 49 votes to 39 in the leadership vote Monday morning, while Julia Gillard is Deputy Leader after no-one else nominated for the position.
		Meanwhile, Chris Evans was voted Labor Senate leader unopposed and Stephen Conroy is deputy Senate leader.
	english.people.com.cn /200612/04/eng20061204_328015.html (115 words)

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