Australian PM wins crucial support
September 7, 2010
Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, is set to form a minority government after winning the support of two independent politicians. The politicians, Tony Windsor and Robb Oakeshott, dubbed the “kingmakers”, declared their support for Gillard on Tuesday, giving her Australian Labor Party a one-seat majority and, thus, control of 76 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives. The August 21 general elections had failed to deliver a clear winner. The conservative opposition controls 74 seats in parliament. “I will … give confidence and supply to government, and in effect that means confidence and supply in Julia Gillard unless, and I emphasise unless,…
