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Bush's Demise Vintage 2007.......
Wine, women and song have joined forces against conservative Prime Minister John Howard as Australia rides a wave of froth and frivolity towards November 24 elections.

-- The wine is labelled "Howard's End" and displays a cartoon of the beleaguered prime minister hurtling towards a rubbish bin, which already contains a copy of his radical labour law reforms.

The trade unionists behind the idea originally planned a small run but the bottles proved so popular that they had to re-order three times, said Tim Vollmer of the construction workers' union.

"It was just a bit of a quirky idea to raise money for the 'Your rights at work' campaign while also creating something for election night," he told AFP.

"We've sold about 2,000 bottles at 10 dollars (9.17 US) each and raised about 12,000 dollars for the campaign."


http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Aussie_voters_ride_election_wave_of_10312007.html
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