Australia PM Gillard handed power by independents

  • 14 years ago
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard retained power by a tiny, one-seat majority Tuesday after winning the backing of two key independent MPs in the first hung parliament in decades. The country's first woman leader, who came to office in a party revolt just 10 weeks ago, scraped over the line to form a government with support from the "kingmakers" after 17 days of frantic post-election negotiations. Duration: 00:48.

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