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| Greens agree to help Labor form Aussie gummint |
| 2010-09-01 |
| CANBERRA, Australia -- A Greens lawmaker on Wednesday agreed to help the Labor Party form a minority Australian government in a widely anticipated alliance based on a desire to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. The lawmaker is the first of six lawmakers from outside the major parties to announce which party they will support to form a government after Aug. 21 elections failed to deliver a winner for the first time in 70 years. Labour would need an additional three lawmakers to form a minority government, but controls the caretaker administration in the meantime under Prime Minister Julia Gillard. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Time to call in Sen. Franken (D-Felons) and show them how to "find" bags of filled out ballots in the back of a candidates' car. Yeah, that'll work. Now we're stuck with him for 6 years. P.S. Yesterday he assaulted a reporter for asking him for an interview. He's a real classy guy. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-09-01 19:17 |
| #1 Its a long way from over. With the single greens guy signing up with the labor party, it is now 73 firm seats to each side. There are four independent newly elected MPs that remain to be Julia Gillard had announced after the election that Labor had the highest 2 party preffered vote, and so had the moral right to rule. Since then the percentages have swung back and forth. At one point this morning, after more than 11 million votes were counted, the conservative side was ahead by just 8 votes. 8 out of 11 million. Now thats one finely tuned electorate. Damn close, and still too close to call. |
| Posted by: Bunyip 2010-09-01 08:34 |