This is the first in a series of videos relating to the NSW Lang Labor Government and the constitutional crises that it encountered or provoked, culminating in the eventual dismissal of the Lang Government.

This video tells a great story of the background of the Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair, and then discusses de Chair's relationship with Lang during the first Lang Government in 1925-27. It addresses attempts to swamp and then abolish the NSW Legislative Council, the constitutional question of whose advice the Governor acted upon, a request for a 'secret' grant of a dissolution and how Lang managed to clear out his ministry. It also explains how Lang caused the King to thump the table in anger.