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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Struggling PM regains slim lead in Australia vote AFP - 1 hour 4 minutes ago Send IM Story Print SYDNEY (AFP) - – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has clawed back a narrow election-winning lead from conservative rival Tony Abbott, as the campaign for next week's poll entered a crucial stage on Monday. Gillard, the nation's first woman leader, who seized power in a party putsch six weeks ago, had a tentative bounce in popularity after her early lead was eviscerated by party infighting and instability, two new opinion polls showed. But the atheist single Labor Party leader played down her lead ahead of the August 21 election, insisting she was still the underdog against Catholic family man Abbott in what has been a notably lacklustre campaign. "This election is a tough, close contest and it's going to be a photo finish," Gillard told reporters in Perth. "And I believe that every day of the election campaign," the flame-haired former lawyer added. The latest Newspoll survey for The Australian newspaper showed the prime minister had turned around her vote to outpace Abbott's Liberal-National coalition by 52 percent to 48. Gillard, whose disaster-strewn campaign went awry as signs of disunity emerged in her centre-left following her brutal ouster of Kevin Rudd six weeks ago, has improved her rating from 50-50 a week ago, the survey said. A Galaxy poll produced a similar result, showing Labor ahead of Abbott's coalition by a tight 51 percent to 49 -- up from 50-50 some 12 days ago, as both parties battle to announce new policies with no new funding in order to keep the budget deficit in check. Gillard's buoyed numbers came after she announced last week she was throwing away the rule book and bring out the "real Julia" to run a more natural and less stage-managed campaign. She also moved to staunch a series of damaging cabinet-level leaks against her and to reconcile publicly with ex-prime minister Rudd. But Newspoll head Martin O'Shannessy warned that the latest results -- the first in two weeks that put Gillard ahead -- should be treated with caution. "This is like a nil-all draw, with Labor being slightly ahead on penalties," he said, adding that the shift to Labor was a "very minor change" with "no real progress" for either candidate since the campaign began three weeks ago. The massive media and political spotlight on the way in which Gillard deposed Rudd has dominated the campaign but is simply a distraction for voters that allowed both parties to avoid tackling real policy issues, he said. "The sideshow of Kevin Rudd" and Gillard's role in his political demise is "keeping (voters) occupied and the policy side of the campaign is (meanwhile) ... not going to happen," O'Shannessy told AFP. The surveys came a day after Abbott officially launched the Liberal campaign by attacking Labor for alleged incompetence, "gutless spin" and wasteful spending in stimulating the economy away from recession in the global crisis. But as Abbott portrayed himself as a prudent and experienced pair of hands, Gillard and her ministers hit back, branding his promises as long on rhetoric but short on financial detail and bereft of vision. The two parties sparred Monday over who managed Australia's highly resilient economy better, each taking credit for it dodging a recession. Treasurer Wayne Swan said Labor had saved Australia from a "savage recession" by rolling out stimulus packages in the face of the global financial crisis. But Abbott said the government's spending remedy for the economy in late 2008 was "panicky" and "shambolic" and Australia's recession-free performance was "a result of monetary policy and the strong Australian dollar". Both parties were slammed by New York-based Human Rights Watch for jeopardising the rights of boatpeople as they try to appear tough on border protection by seeking to process refugees offshore. 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