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Reuters, Canberra

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faced censure on Tuesday over accusations he was behind news reports about a phone call with U.S. President George W. Bush in which Bush appeared unaware of the G20 group of rich nations.

Just days before traveling to Washington for a financial crisis summit called by Bush, Rudd used his parliamentary dominance to defeat rival accusations he or a senior adviser had painted the outgoing U.S. leader as a "fool."

"The prime minister's fingerprints are all over this. Every letter, every paragraph, is dripping with his DNA," conservative opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull told lawmakers.