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powers (except concerning money bills, which can not be introduced in the Senate, but may be rejected, amended, or deferred in the chamber, which famously occurred during the Dismissal of the government led by Gough Whitlam in 1975), along with the lower house. This was done to give less populous states a real influence in the Parliament, while also maintaining the traditional review functions upper houses have in the Westminster system. This has led to the description

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