FED:Labor won't reach absolute majority=3

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2010
FED:Labor won't reach absolute majority=3

Parliamentary secretary Bill Shorten, one of the Labor powerbrokers behind the dumping
of Kevin Rudd for Ms Gillard, said the leaks in the second and third weeks of the campaign
"sucked a lot of the oxygen" out of the campaign debate.

He also blamed coalition "attack ads" especially in Queensland, and to a lesser extent
in NSW, trying to associate federal Labor with the fortunes of unpopular state governments.

"States issues and the leaks made it very hard for us to do any better than we did,"

Mr Shorten told ABC Television.

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