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   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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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gair_AffairGair Affair - Wikipedia

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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.

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   Who was Vincent Clare Gair?

   • Vincent Clare Gair was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, on 25 February 1901. He was the eighth of the ten children of John Alexander Gair, prison warder, and Catherine Mary, née Maguire. John Gair immigrated to Queensland from Scotland in 1885, where he had worked as a publican and hospital orderly.

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   Who was Vince Gair?

   • Vince Gair was above all a controversial figure. Rotund, chubby faced, 5 ft 6 ins (168 cm) tall and 'invincibly amiable', he was nicknamed 'Friar Tuck'. While never a great policy innovator, in his prime he was a consummate political tactician and negotiator who 'could be wilful, impatient and . . . arbitrary'.

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   Why was Vince Gair recalled?

   • One of the bills was subsequently struck down on procedural grounds. Vince Gair took up his post as Ambassador to Ireland in early May 1974, but his behaviour there was often considered inappropriate and he was recalled by the Liberal–National Coalition government of Malcolm Fraser in early 1976.

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   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.

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   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

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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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6. peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au › biography › _-10267Biography - Vincent Clare (Vince) Gair - People Australia

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   Gair, Vincent Clare (Vince) (1901–1980) railway clerk and premier

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   Name: Vincent Clare Gair: Alternative Names: Vincent Clair Gair ; Born: 25 February, 1901 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Died: 11 November, 1980 (aged 79)