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10/14/2004: "Aussie's throw red meat at political junkies"

Get it while it lasts! 5 out of 150 of Australia's House of Representative seats are officially declared to be close. Now I know, not only do their toilets flush wrong, they don't even know the difference between night and day. Still,...

There is actually a sixth seat that was close earlier in the week. It is now safely Liberal (which is Mr. Howard's party). One seat recently added to the close list represents Richmond, New South Wales. What was was a safe pickup for Labor (Australia's appeasement party) is now sliding back to the Nationals (an ally of the Liberals).

And in the past week, all the seats have slid towards Labor losses. It may be that the Liberals will not need to form a coalition; there may yet exist a 76 seat majority of Liberal seats. As of this writing, Labor holds a 7 (or so) vote lead in Swan.