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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 Australian PM Gillard on top in election debate AFP - Monday, July 26 Send IM Story Print Australian PM Gillard on top in election debate SYDNEY (AFP) - – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard came out on top in a televised election debate against her conservative challenger on Sunday, but analysts said she failed to land a knockout blow ahead of polls. Gillard, the country's first female PM, won over the majority of swing voters who watched the debate for commercial television networks Seven and Nine -- with both studio polls also finding women preferred the former lawyer. But analysts said her rival Tony Abbott, a one-time trainee for the Catholic priesthood, spoke more convincingly to the electorate in what is likely to be the only head-to-head debate ahead of the tightly-contested August 21 elections. "I wasn't very impressed by either leader," veteran political journalist Laurie Oakes told Channel Nine. "If you had to give it to a leader, I would say that Tony Abbott probably won it." Gillard, who called the election just weeks after wresting the leadership from Kevin Rudd in a Labor Party backroom coup, used the nationally televised debate to explain her sudden and surprising rise to power last month. The 48-year-old, who is unmarried and childless, said she had been a loyal deputy to Rudd since before his November 2007 election, but had recently decided that his government was losing direction. "I understand that Australians are still thinking this through," she said. "It came down to a really difficult choice. It didn't sit easily with me. "But it came down to a choice as to whether I should continue to be of service to Kevin Rudd or whether I needed to look to my service to the Australian people. The choice I made was to be of service to the Australian people." Abbott, who narrowly defeated Malcolm Turnbull in a bitter fight over climate change policy late last year to lead the opposition Liberal Party, said the problem was not the "face at the top" but the policies of the government. Commercial television studio viewers voted for Gillard -- with Channel Nine viewers putting her ahead 63 percent to 37 percent and Network Seven giving it to her 53 percent to 47 percent. But indications from the "worm" -- a graphic charting the audiences' immediate responses to the debate using a hand-held device -- were that Gillard ran into trouble on the key issues of climate change and immigration. Abbott, who earlier Sunday announced plans to scale back the country's migrant intake, said if elected he would stop the boatloads of asylum seekers arriving in northern Australian waters by turning the vessels around and process refugee applications offshore. Abbott went into the debate as the underdog with Gillard, who was buoyed by a surging female vote and comfortably ahead in opinion polls, but he scored points by attacking the government's climate change response. He described Gillard's plan to convene a citizens' assembly of 150 people to discuss the issue of a carbon price as a "glorified focus group". And he said there had been "a complete failure of leadership from this government and from this prime minister" on the issue. Under Rudd, Labor delayed consideration of a carbon price until 2012, and Gillard spoke of needing to build community consensus before pressing ahead with major economic reforms on the issue. The National Press Club debate, which was rescheduled because of a clash with the final of popular cooking programme MasterChef, failed to impress analysts. Writing on The Australian newspaper's website, Dennis Shanahan said Gillard did not "wipe the floor" with Abbott. "The expectations piled on Gillard's shoulders were left unfulfilled and a solid, mistake-free performance will not be enough to have the new prime minister declared a "winner"," he wrote. 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