Australia Labor Party Forms Minority Government
CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independent lawmakers threw their support behind her center-left Labor Party on Tuesday, ending two weeks of uncertainty left by national elections that ended on a knife-edge.
Australia's first female prime minister promised her government will be stable over the next three years, although the defection of a single lawmaker would bring down her administration.
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