In Australia's just-concluded national vote, conservative Tony Abbott has won enough support to become the country's next prime minister and end six years of Labor rule. That's the analysis from , which reports that voters' main issues were the economy and repeal of carbon and mining taxes.
The election comes months after , 51, Australia's first female prime minister, lost the support of her party. Labor replaced her with Kevin Rudd, who had preceded Gillard as prime minister. But the party failed to show a unity of purpose, according to many analysts.
Rudd conceded defeat on Saturday, reports.
A former Rhodes scholar who leads the Liberal-National coalition, Abbott benefited from "the strident support of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers," .
He has "promised to restore political stability, cut taxes and crack down on asylum seekers arriving by boat," according to .
Abbott was also the target of a famously ferocious speech by Gillard in 2012, when she called him a misogynist who had repeatedly offended her and all the women in Australia, as .
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