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'More time to be a dad': Australian treasurer poised to be ousted from parliament

FILE PHOTO: The new Treasurer Josh Frydenberg attends the swearing-in ceremony in Canberra, Australia August 24, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was poised to become one of the country's highest-ranking cabinet ministers to ever be voted out of parliament on Saturday as he acknowledged it would be difficult to cling onto his seat in the national election.

The Labor Party was on track to end nine years of conservative Liberal-National government, though it was uncertain if they would govern in their own right.

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