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Introduction

Electoral System Features
- Overview
- Compulsory Voting
- Franchise
- Enrolment
- Secret Ballots
- Votes for Women
- Primary Votes
- Informal Votes
- Donkey Votes

Voting Systems
- Preferential
- Proportional
- First-Past-The-Post

Electoral Laws
- A.E.C.
- Cwlth Electoral Act

Election Dates

Election Timetable

Election Costs & Funding

Federal Election Results

Federal Elections
2007 - 2004 - 2001
1998 - 1996 - 1993
1990 - 1987 - 1984
1983 - 1980 - 1977
1975 - 1974 - 1972

By-Elections

State Elections

Electoral Reform

Voting Behaviour

Recent News Items
- Electoral System
- Elections
- 2007 Election

Elections Quiz

Australian Federal Election

December 13, 1975

The 1975 Federal Election occurred after one of the most dramatic periods in Australia's political history. The twice-elected Whitlam Government was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, on 11th November 1975, after a constitutional confrontation that followed the refusal by the Opposition Liberal and National Country Parties in the Senate to pass the annual budget.

Following his dismissal, Gough Whitlam entered the election as the "elected Prime Minister" and Malcolm Fraser was designated the "Caretaker Prime Minister".

The conservative coalition secured one of the largest majorities in Australian electoral history.

Sound Archives

Whitlam's ALP Policy Speech - November 24, 1975
- Listen to the Speech
Fraser's Liberal Party Policy Speech - November 1975
Turn On The Lights - Liberal Party campaign jingle, sung by Renee Geyer.

Election Results

State of the Parties - House of Representatives

Election Literature

"Australian Labor Prison" - a widely-circulated pamphlet produced by the Liberal Party

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