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May 7 .5 Eta in i Jfc Sunday Sua CuMdian (No. 3887) and The Sunday Herald TW ENTY CENTSt DECEMBER 11, 1977 192 pages 'Sail hi '5 Ml i NY i KLjy viiu ciy j-au lt-cy NfL O'RflLLY The Leader of the Opposition, T.1r IVhitlam, announced last night that he would step down as leader of the Labor Party. 1 He congratulated the Liberal-lMational Country Party Coalition for its: ''convincing'' win in the election. He. said that as soon as4 the election results became 1 clear; he would call to- gether tlie newly-elected Labor members to elect the party's myself, will not be nominating for the position of Leader," he said.

GovernmenI loss Late last night the Government- had only one certain lass the Central Queensland seat of Capri-cornia. Trio nlinr' Ptirtv lias fighting chances of winning TJie Leader oj the Labor-required a seats in Democrats, Mr Chipp, is of less than one' per cent and one in 5omh Austra- assuied of a Senate seat to win St. George, but lia, but Ih'e'finatresult U1 in Victoua, and hi ahv no impression. dependVon the; 'attribution- has a good chance of win- 11 At 1030 pm the of prefeiencesK nmg Senate seats in NSW Prime Minister, Mr The Australian Deino- and South Ausrffflid "Fraser, jubilantly arrived crats polled 5ubsjttfnt'tany Labor fared at Melbourne's 1 Southern Victoria and 'South Sydney and made no im--, Ooss Hotel to be greeted1: Australia. pressiort on anv of the by well morf rerairs wfc ne old penmife.

The opposition Leader's The natIOnal director of son MrrTony Whitlam, the Liberal Party, Mr afters only two year in Tony -Eggleton, the. Parliament, has lost the Liberals would have a-marginal seat of St George substantial victory. to the incumbent Liberal, Mr Morris Neil. voniuiueu uu ugc TV 87 WEATHER (City) Mild, warm. Max, City 25; Liverpopl.28.

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