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SYDNEY — Prime Minister Julia Gillard has retained power by the slimmest margin but now faces the task of running a minority government in Australia’s most divided Parliament in 70 years.
On Tuesday, more than two weeks after inconclusive elections, Gillard forged a tenuous coalition with three independents and one legislator from the Greens Party that gave her center-left Labor Party a one-seat majority in the 150-member House of Representatives.
But those four legislators have vowed to support her only in passing annual budgets and fighting no-confidence motions.
