[2] The proposal did not expressly require elections for both houses to be held at the same time, instead it made the terms of Senators the same as for the House of Representatives and would give parliament the power to make laws about the time and places for elections.

[4] In Queensland, the National Party Premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, campaigned against the proposal on the basis that it would permit the senate to be abolished.

[9] It had the highest percentage approval of any unsuccessful referendum and the margin of failure in the fourth state, Western Australia, was 9,211 votes (1.53%).

[7] Charles Court, the Liberal Premier of Western Australia, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the National Party Premier of Queensland, and Max Bingham, Leader of the Tasmanian Liberal Party (then in Opposition at the state level), campaigned against the referendum, largely causing its defeat in those three states.

[citation needed] This was the second unsuccessful referendum that sought to enable simultaneous elections of the House of Representatives and the Senate.