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The dismissal.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Sir David Smith's article "The Truth about the Dismissal" (March 2005) illuminates a number of the more colourful events surrounding that disastrous day in November 1975, but ignores or skates around the dysfunctional aspects of the Constitution which were made all the worse by the then governor-general's actions.
Smith cites some 170 occasions when the denial of Supply was threatened in the Senate--to suggest this was not an abnormal move--but when in the past was that threat ever executed to bring down a government?
Its use on this occasion was possible only because the composition of the Senate had been distorted not by normal party political process but as a result of external (executive) intervention following the deaths of two senators.
In these very unusual circumstances ...
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