The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.

1975 Australian constitutional crisis

Governor-General dismissal of PM Whitlam

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the governor-general who then commissioned the…