TWO DISMISSALS
jack lang - gough whitlam
DEMOCRACY? AT WORK?
Whitlam Dismissal Time Line
These are only some of the events to help you along the way. You will need to fill in the others. The spaces left in the time line are arbitrary and do not represent the specific number of events you could include. Print me off to help you.
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| December, 1972 | Labor elected to power in the Federal Parliament by having a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in 23 years. However, the opposition parties had a majority in the Senate. What consequences could this lead to?
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| May, 1974 | Double dissolution election - that is both houses of parliament were re-elected. In the results which followed Labor was returned but with a reduced majority in the House of Representatives and no majority in the Senate. What did this do to their chances of getting bills passed?
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| February, 1975 | Labor member in the Senate, Lionel Murphy, resigned. He was replaced by (who?) who represented (which party?). What did this do to the numbers in the Senate? What did this do to the possibility of passing the bills?
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| June, 1975 | Labor member in the Senate, Bert Millner, died. He was replaced by (who?) who represented (which party?). What did this do to the numbers in the Senate? What did this do to the possibility of passing the bills?
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| November, 1975 | Opposition majority in the senate refused to pass the budget bills.
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| 11 November, 1975 | The Governor General withdrew Whitlam's commission to form the government - the Governor General effectively dismissed the Prime Minister.
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