We had many other arguments. These are set out in the booklet the AEC sent to every electorate. Incidentally our arguments were more detailed than the republicans. As they faced one another, the voter would have seen many balnk pages to our detailed arguments.

Many people who voted for Gough Whitlam in 1972 and 1974 must have changed their votes in 1975. In fact the 1975 election was a landslide.

On 18 June, 1090, Senator Lionel Murphy, subsequently Attorney General in the Whitlam government then High Court justice, tabled a list of 189 occasions when Labor Oppositions had attempted to oppose money bills in the Senate with the specific purpose of bringing down the government. (See Hansard, Vol. S. 44, p2647; Sir David Smith, Head of State, Macleay Press, Sydney, 2005, page 264 )