Julia Gillard becomes Australian PM

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<p> Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she was aiming to lead a stable minority government after winning support from key independent lawmakers. </p><p> Gillard and Abbott had been desperately wooing the independents for their support for a minority government since August 21 elections delivered the country's first hung parliament since World War Two. </p><p> She said: Labor is prepared to govern. Labor is prepared to deliver stable, effective and secure government for the next three years </p><p> Labor have promised a controversial mining profits tax and a $38 billion broadband project as well a price on carbon to curb one of the world's highest per-capita levels of emissions. </p><p> They are pretty significant issues with significant amounts of money wrapped up in all three of those policies, so I think a lot more certainty on the government side and those policy fronts will be welcomed by business leaders, said Stephen Halmarick, Head of Investment Markets Research with Colonial First State. </p>