File photo of Australia's Governor-General, Quentin Bryce. Australia's Governor-General, Quentin Bryce ,  has cut Singapore and the UK from her official winter trip, keeping only France on her schedule, due to expectations that Prime Minister Julia Gillard will arrive at Government House in the coming days to request the Governor-General to call an election. As a result, Ms Bryce will head to Fromelles in France to represent Australia in a dedication ceremony and then return home, bringing her ten day trip down to five days. In a speech today in Adelaide , South Australia Gillard suggested that she wanted to achieve a mandate by the people through the usual means of the Governor-General. According to current Nielsen and Galaxy polls, on a two-party preferred basis, Julia Gillard leads her rival, opposition leader Tony Abbott , 52-48 percent.
File photo of Australia's Governor-General, Quentin Bryce. Australia's , , has cut Singapore and the UK from her official winter trip, keeping only France on her schedule, due to expectations that Prime Minister Julia Gillard will arrive at in the coming days to request the Governor-General to call an election. As a result, Ms Bryce will head to in France to represent Australia in a dedication ceremony and then return home, bringing her ten day trip down to five days. In a speech today in , South Australia Gillard suggested that she wanted to achieve a mandate by the people through the usual means of the Governor-General. According to current Nielsen and Galaxy polls, on a two-party preferred basis, Julia Gillard leads her rival, opposition leader , 52-48 percent.
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