US Free Trade deal boosts Australian Labor Opposition party

[the Kelly Gang]

Bush buddy Australian PM John Howard has received disastrous poll results after he tried to 'wedge' the Labor Opposition on a US Free Trade deal..Labor demanded that Australia's generous government subsidised drug scheme be protected from rapacious US drug companies..Howard caved in ... this poll shows Labor in a winning lead..and this was before he was exposed this week as having lied at the last election in demonising Iraqi refugees.

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Latham gets poll-leading boost
By Dennis Shanahan
August 17, 2004

"MARK Latham has led Labor to a revival after two weeks of political wrangling over the US free trade agreement.

Labor now has an election-winning lead over the Coalition, 54 to 46 per cent on a two-party preferred basis, after a slump in support for the Government and John Howard.

After a parliamentary sitting during which the Government hoped to turn its trade pact with the US to political gold, the Opposition Leader's spoiling tactics have boosted the ALP and killed all speculation of an Olympics election campaign.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister, embroiled in another political bushfire about the children overboard affair, even suggested the election could be held in late November, after the US election, as polling suggests a highly volatile electorate."


http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10467774%255E421,00.html