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Countdown to Change:
Labour-backed parties contest power in Australia, Brazil and Germany

Updated 1.10.98

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Election Calendar - September-October 1998:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
27 Elections in Germany: Social Democrats win!	28	29	30	1	2	3 Elections in Australia
4 Elections in Brazil (first round of voting)

Latest poll results:

Australia - ALP - 42.1% - increasing (25.9)

Brazil - PT - 24% - holding steady (30.9)

Germany - SPD - 41.4% - television exit poll forecast (27.9)

Links to the sites of the major labour-backed parties:

Australian Labor Party See also Australian Education Union site about the elections as well as links to other trade union election sites in Australia, including the National Tertiary Education Union site and the Community and Public Sector Union site.
Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil)
SPD (Germany)

Mega-sites covering the elections on the net:

Australia Yahoo! full coverage; ABC Election '98
Brazil Folha - in Portuguese
Germany Yahoo! Full Coverage; CNN coverage

Photos of party leaders

Kim Beazley, Australian Labor Party

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, PT (Brazil)

Gerhard Schroeder, SPD (Germany)

Online polls

Australia - "The Australian" snap poll online