THE DISSOLUTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT: 11 NOVEMBER 1975
In: The Parliamentarian: journal of the parliaments of the Commonwealth, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 1-14
ISSN: 0031-2282
IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN WHICH FOLLOWED GOUGH WHITLAM'S DISMISSAL AS PRIME MINISTER, THE LABOR PARTY AND THE LIBERAL-COUNTRY PARTY ACCLAIMED THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S ACTION AS, RESPECTIVELY, AN ASSAULT UPON AND A DEFENSE OF THE CONSTITUTION. JUSTIFICATION FOR THE DISMISSAL WAS BASED ON THE BLOCKAGE BY THE SENATE OF THE SUPPLY BILL, WHICH MEANT THAT APPROPRIATED FUNDS WOULD RUN OUT.