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by Leo Shanahan

15 Aug 05:49am

Filed under: Double Dissolution, Elections, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Malcolm Turnbull

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Call me naïve if you will, but I believe the Prime Minister when he says he doesn’t want a double dissolution election.

Kevin Rudd doing a Fonzy impression

“I have not the slightest intention of going to an early poll. I don’t think people like that. I think they want you to serve the term that you’ve been elected for,” he told 3aw’s Neil Mitchell yesterday.

The prospect of using the recent rejection of the ETS legislation in the Senate is being talked up as a double dissolution trigger among us trigger happy media folk but, strange as it might sound, a double dissolution election would be an unnecessary risk for a Government in cruise control.

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ShowsOn says:

08:50pm | 02/12/09

For duck sake! Rudd said he doesn’t want an EARLY election, he didn’t say he won’t go to a double dissolution. Too many in the media assume that a double dissolution means an EARLY election, but this is wrong. Rudd could call a D.D. for as late as October 16th,… Read more »
steve says:

07:05pm | 30/11/09

RT says: I thought the senate had to actually block the bill before a DD could be legally called. What Abbott & Co. are calling for is a deferral. Read more »

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