election Canberra, Aug 29, SPA -- Australian Prime Minister JohnHoward announced Sunday that he will seek his fourth termat federal elections on Oct. 9. "This election ... will be about trust," Howard told anationally televised press conference in Canberra. "Who do you trust to keep the economy strong and protectfamily living standards?" he said. "Who do you trust tolead the fight on Australia's behalf against internationalterrorism?" The poll pits Howard's three-term conservative coalitionagainst a resurgent Labor Party led by maverick lawmakerMark Latham. It also offers voters the choice of maintaining Howard'scontroversial military engagement in Iraq or backingLatham's vision of pulling hundreds of Australian troopsout of the Middle East by Christmas and boosting economicaid to Iraq. The issue of Iraq lends the Australian election echoes ofthe Spanish poll earlier this year that was marred by theMadrid train bombings that killed 191. The attacks on theeve of voting in Spain were seen as an attempt to influencethe election.--SPA1416 Local Time 1116 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/195956