Search results
Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 1901 – 11 November 1980) [2] was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party from 1965 to 1973.
Brisbane City Council Library, BCC-B120-14565. Vincent Clare (Clair) Gair (1901-1980), railway clerk and premier, was born on 25 February 1901 at Rockhampton, Queensland, eighth child of John Alexander Gair, a prison warder from Scotland, and his wife Catherine Mary, née Maguire (d.1950), a nurse from Ireland.
- 14
People also ask
Who was Vincent Clair Gair?
Who was Vince Gair?
When did Vince Gair retire?
Who was John Gair?
John Gair immigrated to Queensland from Scotland in 1885, where he had worked as a publican and hospital orderly. He was a ‘strict disciplinarian’ and ‘a life-long supporter of the Labour Party’, but the principal parental influence on young Vince seems to have been his Irish-born mother.
- Brian Stevenson
Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 1901 – 11 November 1980) was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democrati
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 forthcoming general election.
Vince Gair was Queensland Treasurer from 1950 and Premier from 1952. A vehement anti-Communist, his support for the Catholic-linked Industrial Groups and his attempts to restrict the influence within the Australian Labor Party of both the Australian Workers' Union and the left-wing Queensland Trades and Labor Council led in 1957 to his ...
Gair, Vincent Clair; Birth. 25 February, 1901 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Death. 11 November, 1980 (aged 79) South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
