Australian general election, 1977

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	Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
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		Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990.
		The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm (1465 words)

	RSSS - Professor Ian McAllister - Curriculum Vitae
		‘Conservative Euroscepticism and the Referendum Party in the 1997 British General Election.’ Party Politics 6(3): 359-71.
		An analysis of the ethnic and racial composition of the Australian Defence Force, with Dr Roger Jones and Dr Anthony Bergin (for Department of Defence).
		Australian politics (first year): 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994.
	rsss.anu.edu.au /directorpages/cv.htm (1465 words)

	Should the Australian Electoral System be Changed? (Current Issues Brief 10 1998-99)
		This was especially obvious in the landslide elections of 1966, 1975, 1977 and 1996 when the winning party gained a much higher proportion of seats than votes.(35) In 1996, for instance, the Coalition won 63.5 per cent of House seats on a first preference vote of just 47.2 per cent.
		After three uncontroversial elections in the first decade, in the 1910 election all 18 Senate seats were won by Labor, and in 1917 the eighteen were all won by the Nationalists.
		Before this change, the fact that five were to be elected in half-Senate elections meant that it was always possible that one party could gain a majority of Senate seats decided in a particular year-in 1955, for instance the Coalition won 17 of 30 seats across the nation.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/cib/1998-99/99cib10.htm (1465 words)

	Bibliographie
		"The Case of the Arrested Pendulum." In The Australian National Elections of 1977, edited by Howard Penniman.
		"The Electoral System and the 1978 Election." In New Zealand at the Polls: The General Election of 1978, edited by Howard Penniman.
		Barnes, G.P. "The General Review of Parliamentary Constituencies in England (1976 - 83)." Electoral Studies 4, no. 2 (1985): 179-81.
	www.aceproject.org /main/francais/bd/bdz_002 (655 words)

	Timeline 1864-1866
		1866 Jan 2, Gilbert Murray, Australian born scholar who became the chairman of the League of Nations, 1923 through 1928, was born.
		He deployed Major General Benjamin F. Chatham’s corps northeast of the city and sent Lieutenant General William J. Hardee's corps around McPherson’s left flank with orders to crush the Army of the Tennessee on the morning of July 22.
		Andrew Johnson for her work as a field doctor, for outstanding service at the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Chickamauga, the Battle of Atlanta, and as a Confederate prisoner of war in Richmond, Va. Her medal was rescinded 1917 along with 910 others, but restored by President Carter June 10, 1977.
	timelines.ws /1864_1866.HTML (655 words)

	Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On November 11, 1975, stating that there was no prospect of the crisis being resolved otherwise, Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Whitlam and appointed Malcolm Fraser as the caretaker Prime Minister, on the basis that Fraser had promised to pass supply, then immediately advised the Governor-General to dissolve parliament and call a general election.
		The crisis was resolved in a dramatic fashion on 11 November 1975 when the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Whitlam as Prime Minister and appointed his Liberal opponent Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister.
		The crisis did precipitate one constitutional change, passed by referendum in 1977, to require that State Governments fill Senate vacancies with a member of the Party of the original holder of the seat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_constitutional_crisis_of_1975 (2850 words)

	Bill Hayden Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
		William George Hayden (born 23 January 1933), Australian politician and 21st Governor-General of Australia, was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of an American-born sailor of Irish descent.
		When Labor lost the 1977 election, Whitlam retired as leader and Hayden was elected to succeed him.
		During the 1999 debate on an Australian republic, Hayden adopted a monarchist position, completing his alienation from his former party and the left generally.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Bill_Hayden (718 words)

	Gareth Evans (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During 1997 Evans orchestrated in secret the defection to the Labor Party of the Leader of the minority Australian Democrats party, Senator Cheryl Kernot, who resigned from the Senate in October and became a Labor House of Representatives candidate at the 1998 election.
		In 1977 Evans was elected to the Senate, and was elected to the Opposition front bench in 1980, becoming Shadow Attorney-General.
		Gareth John Evans (born 5 September 1944), Australian politician, served as Attorney-General and Foreign Minister of Australia during the Hawke-Keating Labor governments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gareth_Evans_(politician) (1180 words)

	Gough Whitlam Trivia
		The Liberals retained power in the 1977 General Election after which Whitlam resigned.
		Gough Whitlam contested the new State seat of Sutherland in 1950 as a member of the Australian Labor Party, which he had joined in 1945.
		Gough Whitlam's Labor party was soundly defeated in the ensuing Double Dissolution election.
	www.freewebs.com /trivia_alive/gough.html (494 words)

	Bill Hayden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William George Hayden (born 23 January 1933), Australian politician and 21st Governor-General of Australia, was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of an American-born sailor of Irish descent.
		When Labor lost the 1977 election, Whitlam retired as leader and Hayden was elected to succeed him.
		In June 1975 he was appointed Treasurer (finance minister), a position he held until the Whitlam Government was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, on November 11.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Hayden (577 words)

	Fijian Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A constitutional crisis developed when, three days after the election, the NFP splintered in a leadership brawl, and the Governor General of Fiji, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, asked the Mara government to remain in power in a caretaker capacity.
		The rule of the Alliance Party was briefly challenged in the election of March 1977, when a split in the ethnic Fijian vote resulted in the loss of nine seats.
		The Fijian Alliance was considered to be a centre-right party, and was a member of the International Democrat Union, a umbrella-organization of moderate right-wing parties from many countries, including the Republican Party of the United States, the British Conservative Party, and the Australian Liberal Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fijian_Alliance (498 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Fijian Alliance
		The rule of the Alliance Party was briefly challenged in the election of March 1977, when a split in the ethnic Fijian vote resulted in the loss of nine seats.
		A constitutional crisis developed when, three days after the election, the NFP splintered in a leadership brawl, and the Governor General of Fiji, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, asked the Mara government to remain in power in a caretaker capacity.
		The Fijian Alliance was considered to be a centre-right party, and was a member of the International Democrat Union, a umbrella-organization of moderate right-wing parties from many countries, including the Republican Party of the United States, the British Conservative Party, and the Australian Liberal Party.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Fijian_Alliance (498 words)

	WA Democrats
		As a result, loss of support signalled the death of the party whose electoral support was annihilated at the October 2004 general election, though four long-term senators may remain until 2007 (or a possible earlier double dissolution of the Australian Parliament).
		In 1977, Australians formed a new political party which was to be governed by direct participation of its membership.
		Since those events, progressive Australian activists and voters have moved en masse to The Greens with the result that Senate seats lost by the Democrats are expected to gravitate to Greens during the next decade.
	members.iinet.net.au /~jenks/wadem.html (498 words)

	Arch Bevis - enyclopaedia article about Arch Bevis
		However, after Labor's third consecutive election loss in 2001, Bevis was one of a number of ministers who handed in their resignations.
		Summary: Hon Arch Bevis Archibald Ronald "Arch" Bevis (born 10 April 1955) is an Australian politician.
		Bevis worked as a teacher between 1975 and 1977, before becoming involved in unionism.
	www.pro-researcher.co.uk /encyclopaedia/english/arch_bevis (498 words)

	AllRefer.com - David Russell Lange (Australian And New Zealand History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		After his party won the 1984 general election on a non-nuclear defense platform, he encouraged free market reforms and cut the federal budget.
		After receiving his law degree he fought for the rights of the underprivileged in Auckland and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1977.
		Related Category: Australian And New Zealand History, Biographies
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lange-Da.html (239 words)

	ipedia.com: Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 Article
		The crisis began when the upper house of the Australian Federal Parliament, the Senate, in which the opposition Liberal-Country Party coalition had a majority, deferred voting on a bill that appropriated funds for government expenditure, conditional on the Prime Minister dissolving the House of Representatives and calling an election.
		But it did lead to a constitutional change, passed by referendum in 1977, to require that State Premiers and Parliaments fill Senate vacancies with the nominee of the Party of the original holder of the seat.
		The Liberal and National Country Party Senators were advised of the situation and they duly voted to pass the Supply Bill, along with the Labor Senators.
	www.ipedia.com /australian_constitutional_crisis_of_1975_1.html (1774 words)

	Simon Crean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1990 elections, Crean was elected to the seat of Hotham in the Australian House of Representatives, and immediately entered the Hawke ministry as Minister for Science.
		However, in the aftermath of Labor's defeat in the 2004 election, many in the Labor Party felt that Crean's performance in the campaign was poor and he was partly responsible for Labor's defeat: as a result, Crean resigned from his Shadow Treasurer position.
		He is the son of Frank Crean, a federal Labor MP from 1951 to 1977, who was Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Gough Whitlam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Crean (690 words)

	Simon Crean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1990 elections, Crean was elected to the seat of Hotham in the Australian House of Representatives, and immediately entered the Hawke ministry as Minister for Science.
		He is the son of Frank Crean, a federal Labor MP from 1951 to 1977, who was Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Gough Whitlam.
		However, in the aftermath of Labor's defeat in the 2004 election, many in the Labor Party felt that Crean's performance in the campaign was poor and he was partly responsible for Labor's defeat: as a result, Crean resigned from his Shadow Treasurer position.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Crean (672 words)

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