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Vince Gair. The Night of the Long Prawns. Gair's letter. Double dissolution and aftermath. References. Gair Affair. Vince Gair. Gough Whitlam. The Gair Affair was an episode in Australian political life in 1974, during the government led by the Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
Sir Maurice Hearne Byers CBE, QC (10 November 1917 – 17 January 1999) was a noted Australian jurist and constitutional expert. He was the Commonwealth Solicitor-General from 1973 to 1983, in which capacity he played a role in the Gair Affair and the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
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The replacement of Gair as leader by McManus in 1973, lead to the Gair Affair in April of the next year. The Whitlam government realised that if Gair could be persuaded to resign, the ALP would very probably win his Senate seat at the next Senate elections.
Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. ... Gair Affair By early 1974, the ...
Gair Affair. Following an attempt by Whitlam to appoint the former leader of the Democratic Labor Party, Senator Vince Gair, as Ambassador to Ireland, the Opposition Leader, Bill Snedden, threatened to force an election by blocking Supply in the Senate.
The Gair affair. One of the hallmarks of the Whitlam period in government was attempts by both sides to manipulate the numbers in the Senate. This started with the Gair affair. Vince Gair was a DLP senator who had recently lost the leadership of his party. He was disgruntled and was open to receiving a government appointment.
The Gair Affair was an episode in Australian political life in 1974, during the government led by the Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Whitlam offered the post of Ambassador to Ireland to a non-government senator from Queensland, Vince Gair, in the hope that this would improve Labor's chance of gaining a majority in the Senate at the ...
