Whitlam's Dismissal (Australian History)

Gough Whitlam elected as prime minister in 1972 and dismissed on 11 November 1975. In December 1972 the Labor party had won sixty-seven seats and Liberal won fifty-eight, so the long reign of the Liberal party came to an end and so Gough Whitlam took his place as prime minister of Australia.

Even though Labor had won seventy-two elections it failed to gain control of the senate. So during 1973 the senate delayed or rejected it’s legislation causing a big problem for Whitlam’s government. Then in May 1974 the prime minister asked the governor general for a double dissolution which ended up evenly balancing the senate. The end result was that Labor had twenty-nine senators, Liberal had twenty-nine senators and there were two independents, therefore Labor still didn’t contro...