What Can We Learn From Australia’s Greatest Constitutional Crisis? Plenty!
Australia shows that an elected Senate permits political trench warfare in both houses of Parliament. It also shows that if the approval of both Houses is necessary to gain supply, there must be a provision in the Constitution to break any deadlock.
Australia is an independent constitutional monarchy like Canada. In 1975, Australia experienced her greatest constitutional crisis, and there is much that Canadians can learn from it. (The details of the Australian crisis was taken largely from www.whitlamdismissal.com and edited.)
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