FED:Leaders vote in tight election

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2010
FED:Leaders vote in tight election

Australia's leaders have now cast their votes .. in what's expected to be the closest
federal election in decades.

Prime Minister JULIA GILLARD flew home to Melbourne to vote at a school in her electorate
of Lalor this afternoon .. telling reporters it's a tight .. tough contest.

Opposition leader TONY ABBOTT voted with his wife MARGIE and three daughters at a surf
club in his Sydney seat this morning.

Both briefly suspended last-minute campaigning to send their condolences to the families
of two Australian soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan yesterday.

They've been named as 35-year-old father of two Private GRANT KIRBY and 21-year-old
Private TOMAS DALE .. both from a Brisbane-based contingent.

Two of their comrades were injured in the incident .. in a mission both the PM and
Mr ABBOTT say must go on.

Greens leader BOB BROWN has voted in Tasmania ... he says he hopes that by next election
day .. our troops will be home.

AAP RTV /jmt

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