Editing Prime Minister of Australia (section)

=== Other responsibilities ===
[[National Cabinet (Australia)|National Cabinet]], the primary inter-governmental decision-making forum between the federal government and the states, is also chaired by the prime minister.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Cabinet |url=https://federation.gov.au/national-cabinet |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Federation.gov.au |publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> While called a cabinet, the body is merely a discussion forum and the principles of secrecy and collective decision making do not apply.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Twomey |first=Anne |date=2021-08-06 |title=Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet |url=http://theconversation.com/nowhere-to-hide-the-significance-of-national-cabinet-not-being-a-cabinet-165671 |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> 

Since the 1940s, the prime minister has asserted their authority to select the governor-general alone, instead of this being a cabinet decision.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pyke |first=John |title=Government powers under a Federal Constitution: constitutional law in Australia |date=2020 |publisher=Lawbook Co |isbn=978-0-455-24415-0 |edition=2nd |location=Pyrmont, NSW |pages=291–2 |language=en-AU}}</ref> The power is exercised through advice to the [[King of Australia]], who holds the de jure power to make the appointment and is by convention bound to accept such advice. The prime minister can also advise the monarch to dismiss the governor-general, though it remains unclear how quickly the monarch would act on such advice in a [[constitutional crisis]]. This uncertainty, and the possibility of a race between the governor-general and prime minister to dismiss the other, was a key question in the [[1975 Australian constitutional crisis|1975 constitutional crisis]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Twomey |first=Anne |title=The veiled sceptre: reserve powers of heads of state in Westminster systems |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-29784-5 |series= |location=Cambridge |pages=333–40 |language=en}}</ref>