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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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CANBERRA | Wed Sep 1, 2010 12:32am EDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A deal with Australia's Greens party to support ruling Labor in trying to form a minority government would not lead to changes in a planned profits-based tax on mining, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Wednesday.

"Our election commitments are our election commitments. In the days since the election I've been asked will you change the Minerals Resource Rent Tax, and the answer of course is no," Gillard told reporters.

Gillard's Labor and Tony Abbott's conservative opposition are wrangling to secure support from four independent lawmakers wielding the balance of power after inconclusive elections on August 21.

(Reporting by Rob Taylor; Editing by Balazs Koranyi)
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