15 October 1975, Canberra, Australia
In the House of Representatives this morning, I asked the prime minister for the second time whether he and his government would resign. For the second time, he said that he’d not. The Opposition now has no choice. We will use the power vested in us, by the Constitution and delay the passage of the government’s money bills through the Senate, until the parliament goes to the people.
In accordance with long established Constitutional practice, which the prime minister has himself acknowledged in the past, the government must then resign.