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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.
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. Catherine became prominent in local politics as a supporter of the fledgling ...
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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.
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Last updated March 05, 2024 • 8 min read From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Democratic Labor Party. Queensland Labor Party. Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 1901 – 11 November 1980) [2] was an Australian politician.
Vince Gair. Archive Footage: This Day Tonight. Vince Gair was born on 25 February 1901 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He was married to Ellen (Nell) Mary Sexton and Florence Glynn.
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Vincent Clair Gair was born on 25th February 1901 at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, the fifth son of Scottish-born John Gair and Irish-born Catherine McGuire, and raised a Catholic. His parents were founding members of the Labor Party in Queensland in the 1890s. Gair began work with the Department of Railways upon the family's move to ...
Gair, Vincent Clare (Vince) (1901–1980) railway clerk and premier
