Gillard foils Rudd with solid win
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard easily won an internal party vote today against the colleague she deposed two years ago, Kevin Rudd, and declared that she had put down the internal strife that has undermined her unpopular government for months.
Ms Gillard defeated Mr Rudd 71 votes to 31 in a ballot of Labour Party parliamentarians, but she faces the challenge of reuniting her bitterly divided party and Cabinet.
