> I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once? It's a fairly typical feature of parliamen

> I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once? It's a fairly typical feature of parliamentary systems that, if the Government fails to pass a Matter of Confidence (such as, among other things, a budget), this constitutes the passage of a Motion of No Confidence, and results in the government being dissolved. This has happened any number of times in the history of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the UK, among many others. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeated_by_votes_of_no_confidence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeate... for a list