<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gorton" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Gorton">John Gorton</a> resigns as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" id="mwAQo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister of Australia</a> and the leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liberal Party of Australia">Liberal Party of Australia</a> after a secret ballot <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_leadership_spill,_1971" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 1971">vote of confidence</a>, being replaced in both positions by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McMahon" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William McMahon">William McMahon</a>.<sup about="#mwt168" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_10#cite_note-32" id="mwAQ4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQ8">[32]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt169" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-33"}}' id="cite_ref-33" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_10#cite_note-33" id="mwARA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 33;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARE">[33]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-32">"Australian Party Replaces Gorton As Prime Minister— The Vote Is 34 to 33— He Cast the Deciding Ballot", by Robert Trumbull, <i id="mwCIs">The New York Times</i>, March 10, 1971, p1</span>