Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard won the support of a key independent MP on Thursday, leaving her close to breaking the worst political deadlock in decades after elections failed to produce a winner.
File photo shows Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard holding a young child in Melbourne. A key independent MP has backed Gillard to form a government after deadlocked polls, leaving her just two seats short of a parliamentary majority.
Former Iraq war whistle-blower Andrew Wilkie said Gillard's centre-left Labor party was most likely to deliver "stable" and "competent" government, an endorsement that put her within just two seats of a parliamentary majority.
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