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Affairs:     Howard hits election mode   PM - Monday, 23 April ,
2007  18:10:57  Reporter: Gillian Bradford  MARK COLVIN: He may
still be a long way from firing the starter's gun, but there's
now little doubt that the Prime Minister John Howard is well and
truly in election mode.  Today Mr Howard went to the Queensland
press club to give a speech that he pitched as being about the
future of the nation.  But it was also very much about the
threat that the Government faces from the Opposition, ahead of
election 2007.  Indeed, just this morning the Coalition had
another reminder, in the form of a newspaper poll, that Labor is
well in front and would easily win the election if it were held
now.  But the Prime Minister used parts of his speech to try to
convince voters that there was little of substance to the
Opposition leader Kevin Rudd.