Nationalist Daniel Levy controversially accepted re-election as speaker, giving Labor an effective majority.

Levy was replaced by Labor's Simon Hickey and the government was defeated on the floor of the house 44 votes to 45.

[6][7] The Dooley ministry resigned and as a result Fuller was asked by Governor Sir Walter Davidson to form a government.

The coalition did not have complete support, with Nationalists William Ashford and William Bagnall reportedly dissatisfied, while formal coalition was opposed by the True Blue members of the Progressive party, led by Michael Bruxner and Ernest Buttenshaw.

[9] It is not clear who Fuller hoped would take the role of speaker, however when the Legislative Assembly resumed, Bagnall offered to accept the role of speaker, stating that "I cannot reconcile myself to this recognition of the men who were the chief assassins of the last National Government, and to seeing them placed in the high and honorable positions of Ministers of the Crown".