Australia's Conservative party was spanked in federal elections yesterday-- a humiliating end to Johnny Howard's 11-year run as Prime Minister. Kevin Rudd's Labor party is expected to take at least 81 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, garnering over 70% of all ballots counted nationwide. Johnny Howard is also likely to lose his own seat in Parliament-- the second sitting prime minister in 106 years to do so.Kevin Rudd's leadership team (which includes former Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett ) has promised to immediately withdraw all of Australia's troops from Iraq as well as immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions (leaving the U.S. as the only industrialized country not to have done so).
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