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But maybe Gore's enthusiasm was a bit misplaced. In September, less than two years later, Australians seem likely, according to the polls, to hand the Gillard Labor government a stinging landslide defeat.
For all of the first 15 years after Federation in 1901, Australians elected Minority Governments. Nevertheless, the Parliament passed much essential legislation.
Labor knew all along that it could never hope to fund the $9 billion worth of reforms recommended by the Gonski report and has instead resorted to its usual pre-budget money-shuffling.
