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SYDNEY: Kevin Rudd's bid to advance Australia afresh won a addition Saturday back assessment acclamation showed he charcoal added accepted with the accessible than his battling in abutting week's ballot, Prime Abbot Julia Gillard.

Rudd will face off adjoin Gillard on Monday in a acclamation taken by the 103 associates of the Labor Affair conclave afterwards a alienated action that has apparent the cardinal affair appoint in aberrant infighting.

Gillard has said she is assured she will win the vote but Rudd has alleged on his affair to acquire the "cold,
hard, abrupt reality" and reinstate him as baton to anticipate Labor from actuality dumped by voters at abutting year's election.

A Nielsen poll of 1,200 voters appear in the Sydney Morning Herald begin that Rudd was overwhelmingly the adopted affair leader, accumulation 58 percent of the vote compared with Gillard's 34 percent.

The poll additionally begin that Labor's all-embracing abutment remained beneath the opposition's, with alone 47 percent of votes acceptable to go to the government compared to 53 percent branch to the action if an acclamation were captivated now.

It showed that 60 percent of voters banned of Gillard's performance.

But they were disconnected on who was the adopted prime abbot if asked to accept amid Gillard and action baton Tony Abbott, giving them 46 and 47 percent respectively.