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IPREDCT LTD ECONOMIC & POLITICAL NEWSLETTER #3 20 February 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.ipredict.co.nz Key Points: • Gillard gone by 1 July • IMF world growth expected to be 3.2% for 2012 • Bashar al-Assad to remain Syrian dictator until at least June
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Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has ruled out a challenge to Julia Gillard, for now, as the prime minister maintained she had the strong support of caucus. After a day of political toing and froing among their respective supporters, Mr Rudd landed in Mexico
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One of the key factional powerbrokers behind the demise of Kevin Rudd has left the way open for Julia Gillard to call a leadership spill next week. Right-wing faction leader and Victorian senator David Feeney says while he is not urging Ms Gillard to bri
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AFP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard insisted she has strong support from her Labor colleagues as party critics told Kevin Rudd to "put up or shut up" with leadership tensions reaching fever pitch. Amid speculation that a leadership ballot could come as ea
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Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Julia Gillard predicted that she will survive 2012 as Australia’s leader, and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd played down speculation he will attempt a comeback and challenge her for the job he lost to her. “I’m getting on with the job
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Prime Minister Julia Gillard insisted on Monday she has strong support from her Labor colleagues as party critics told Kevin Rudd to 'put up or shut up' with leadership tensions reaching fever pitch. Amid speculation that a leadership ball
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By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard should sack her foreign minister, who she toppled to be premier in 2010, and end a bitter leadership crisis that threatens her minority government and is repelling voters, a sen
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Neither Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd is making a move on a leadership challenge. Picture: Kym Smith Source: The Daily Telegraph Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd speaks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle in Los Cabos, Mexico, today. Pictu
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard insisted she has strong support from her Labor colleagues as party critics told Kevin Rudd to “put up or shut up” with leadership tensions reaching fever pitch. Amid speculation that a leadership ballot could come as early as
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FOREIGN Minister Kevin Rudd says a leadership spill is "not in prospect" and he is getting on with his job. Cabinet minister Simon Crean has called on Mr Rudd and Prime Minister Julia Gillard to settle their differences, describing Mr Rudd as "clearly no
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Australian ex-premier Kevin Rudd was told to "put up or shut up" by critics in his party on Monday as leadership tensions reached fever pitch with speculation a ballot could come as early as next week. Rudd, now foreign minister, was ousted in a shock pa
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Kevin Rudd fronts a new video portraying him as heart-warming in contrast to the potty-mouthed performance which has stirred the leadership speculation. In a promo clip for HeartKids Australia, Mr Rudd recalls the rheumatic fever he had as a child which
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INDEPENDENT MP Andrew Wilkie stands by comments he made that it would be easier to work with Kevin Rudd than Julia Gillard after she reneged on her deal to implement controversial poker machine reforms. In a statement released this afternoon the Tasmania
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard refused to call Kevin Rudd "disloyal". Picture: Herald Sun Source: News Limited JULIA Gillard today declined to join colleagues accusing Kevin Rudd of disloyalty but said she had ``strong support'' to stay as Prime Minister.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard insists she has the strong support of her Labor colleagues. Speculation is mounting that there could be a partyroom leadership showdown between Ms Gillard and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd as soon as next week. But Ms Gillard o
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard facing the media in Canberra today. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared that she will use her "characteristic determination" to weather the Labor leadership storm and has batted away suggestions
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Live broadcast from Sky News Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been urged to sack Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd. Source: Supplied PRIME Minister Julia Gillard insists she has the strong support of her Labor colleagues. Speculation is mounting that t
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The Socialist dream of controlling the energy supply is dying – along with Socialist governments LABOR’S leadership conflagration is likely to be as pointless as it is spiteful. Arguing over whether Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd should lead the ALP to the
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Photo: Andrew Meares Prime
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LABOR MPs are sniping publicly, at least two senior cabinet ministers are taking pot-shots at Kevin Rudd while he's overseas - but according to Julia Gillard, it's business as usual. The Prime Minister this afternoon brushed aside questions about her lea
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