Home
 About Geoff
 Gallery
Jeff's SiteArchives
 Books
 Services
 Contact Us
 Links Page
  
  
home / archives / 1973 /  8th June

Higher resolution version available: click on image to download.

 

Same trick again?

For the first time in 14 years an Australian Prime Minister and Labor Leader Gough Whitlam had visited India. Bill Snedden Leader of the Liberal Opposition had been vying for control of the Upper House and as the economy worsened and inflation rose he was waiting for Whitlam's return.

In 1974 Whitlam held a double dissolution election which he won narrowly but he lost control of the Upper House.