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Friday, November 11, 2005
| Category: Politics The Wikipedia has quite a comprehensive article about the events of this day in 1975 which includes the following... It is notable that although the crisis was described as Australia's most dramatic political event since Federation in 1901, it caused no disruption in the services of government; it saw the parties remaining committed to the political and constitutional process by contesting the subsequent election and accepting the result. The crisis did precipitate one constitutional change, passed by referendum in 1977, to require that State Governments fill Senate vacancies with a member of the Party of the original holder of the seat. This would not have prevented Bjelke-Petersen from replacing Milliner with Field, but it would have prevented Lewis from replacing Murphy with Bunton.The great crisis which lead to an election. We have a very mild life here in Australia. My extremely trivial insight is that while Gough Whitlam is often quoted on his "Kerr's cur" (he couldn't help being a smartarse even in that most dour of situations), the word cur has not become any more frequently used than it was before. Before clicking here, can you tell me what it means? |
