Labor wins in New South Wales
The Australian Labor Party has won the New South Wales state elections by a landslide - details here.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 8:15 pm
Saturday, March 24, 2007
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2 Comments:
Do worry that the anti war vote may have helped in this victory- tories can't play on that here but the Lib Dems will be reminding voters of it.
2:24 pm, March 25, 2007
Actually I doubt Iraq was a major factor - state elections are usually fought on state not federal issues in Australia i.e. not foreign policy.
3:02 pm, March 25, 2007
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