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 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australians were choosing Saturday between the known and the new in elections Saturday that pit a four-term prime minister selling his economic management record against a younger challenger who rates global warming as his top priority.
Opposition leader Kevin Rudd of the Labor Party has a clear lead in opinion polls over conservative Prime Minister John Howard heading into the ballot.
A defeat for Howard would mean a humiliating end to the career of Australia's second-longest-serving prime minister and usher in big changes in the country's approach to global warming and its troop deployment in Iraq.
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