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Gillard

Broadband seals it for Gillard

NBR staff | Tuesday September 07, 2010

Broadband was central to Independent MP Tony Windsor's decision to back Labor, delivering it a 76 - 74 majority in Australia's lower house.

Fellow independent Rob Oakeshott also backed Julia Gillard's party, while a third, Bob Katter, broke for the Liberal-National coalition.

"The issues [sic] that I thought were critical to this, and possibly the most critical, was broadband," Mr Windsor told a press conference in Canberra.