CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has fallen behind opponents for the first time in a key opinion survey after a range of controversial policy decisions as he readies for elections later this year.
Rudd remains on course to win a second term in most other surveys, but the latest poll will come as jolt: the last time the conservative coalition shaded Labor in the closely watched Newspoll was in August 2006, before Rudd won power in late 2007.
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