Rudd positioned to win the environmental vote


	Rudd positioned to win the environmental vote

Wadard

4-29-2007 1:20 PM

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global warming, australia

Wadard says:

The Australian Prime Minister's worst dreams were realised when his months of hoping that Labor's national conference would be a showcase of all the worst aspects of the ALP came to naught on the weekend.

He had been hoping they would implode and had been pressing Labor's super-sensitive spot on uranium, the exposed raw nerve of an unfinished, three-decade-long factional argument.

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pressing Labor's super-sensitive spot on uranium, the exposed raw
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