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On 3rd anniversary, Australian PM pushed to leave

/ 04:01 PM June 24, 2013

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Port Moresby : Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R) talks with local school children in Port Moresby during her trip to Papua New Guinea on May 10, 2013. INQUIRER file photo

CANBERRA — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is spending her third anniversary in office resisting pressure from colleagues to open her job to a ballot.

An opinion poll published Monday suggests the ruling center-left Labor Party is headed for a devastating defeat at elections set for Sept. 14. Successive polls suggest Labor would be more popular with voters with Gillard’s predecessor Kevin Rudd as leader.

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She ousted Rudd in an internal party coup on July 24, 2010. Now many in government want him back.

Gillard says she will neither quit nor put her leadership to a vote of government lawmakers.

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