Preface: This book gives an account of certain happenings in australia between 1974 and 1978, of decisions of mine taken then as Governor-General and of the reasons for them.

Preface to paperback edition: This paperback edition of Matters for Judgment comes out ten years after publication of the first hardback edition ... in the intervening decade there has been endless discussion and argument about the dramatic supply crisis of 1975 which is the dominant subject of the book. This is bound to continue because Australia will, this year and for some time to come, be preoccupied with constitutional matters arising from the 1975 events.

Chapter 1 (The Consent of the Governed): In Australia in the latter part of 1975 a very serious political crisis occurred which rapidly developed into a constitutional crisis.