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Kevin Rudd has been elected the new leader of the Labor Party.
Mr Rudd, who challenged Kim Beazley for the top Labor job, won the vote 49-39 in a Caucus room meeting this morning.
Julia Gillard is the new deputy leader. No one else nominated for the position.
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Rudd elected new Opposition Leader
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Dec 3, 2006 6:59 PM EST
Article Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Third leadership challenge in three years—they'd be crazy to have another before the election, so it will most likely be a Rudd Howard election next year.
I suppose this will also mark the end of Beazley's political career.
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#1 - Sun Dec 3, 2006 7:09 PM EST{"commentId":409152,"authorDomain":"fipe"}
Apparently another explosion of insanity/cheap poll-driven opportunism by the caucus. I can only hope that Rudd manages to avoid the Latham trap of glib 'conviction politics', which will drive me totally insane.
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