Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 SPEECH I will never forget that day, 11 November 1975 to be exact. To me it is a day of rememberance. This whole contraversial issue began when the the Senate blocked a bill that appropriated funds for the payment of government expenditure, with the goal of forcing the Government to call a lower-house election. Such action was unprecedented in Australian Federal politics. My party ignored such calls, and attempted to pressure Liberal senators …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 428 total…of my party in 1975 has been described as the greatest political crisis in Australia's history. when the Senate refused to pass the government's budget. The crisis and dismissal were possible because a number of longstanding conventions were broken. Few Australians who lived through the turmoil of November 1975 have forgotten either its significance or their feelings about the political crisis of that time. Anniversaries of the 1975 dismissal continue to provide a reason to revisit the issues.