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Gair Affair. 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 ...
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.
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Gair served as Acting Premier for extended periods during the long, final illness of Premier Ned Hanlon. When Hanlon died on 15 January 1952, Gair succeeded him. Gair’s first three years as premier were prosperous, stable and peaceful, as Queensland continued to recover from the exigencies of war.
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The Gair Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier Vince Gair. It succeeded the Hanlon Ministry on 17 January 1952 following Ned Hanlon 's death two days earlier. On 26 April 1957, Gair and most of the Ministry were expelled from the Labor Party and formed the Queensland Labor Party (QLP), retaining ...
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.
Name: Vincent Clare Gair: Alternative Names: Vincent Clair Gair ; Born: 25 February, 1901 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Died: 11 November, 1980 (aged 79)
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 expulsion from the Party.
