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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.
- Byrne, Condon Bryan
In 1967 Byrne was again elected to the Senate, this time as...
- Bukowski
He was appointed a full-time A.W.U. organizer at Ayr in...
- Neil Francis Macgroarty
in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, 1986...
- Frank Arthur Cooper
Frank Arthur Cooper (1872-1949), clerk and premier, was born...
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Treasurer (1951-57) in Edward Hanlon's and Vince Gair's...
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Sir John Dudley Lavarack (1885-1957), army officer and...
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William Forgan (Bill) Smith (1887-1953), painter and...
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A volume of his selected public addresses was published in...
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Member of Lower House (1932-1960) Queensland, Australia...
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Gair and Reg Wright campaigned actively for the ‘no’ case in the referendum proposal to break the 2:1 ‘nexus’ ratio between the numbers in the House of Representatives and the Senate. They drafted the ‘no’ case in 1965 and 1967 (the referendum scheduled for May 1966 had been postponed for twelve months) and co-wrote letters to ...
- Brian Stevenson
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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 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 Democratic Labor Party from 1965 to 1973.
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
Politics of Australia. Political parties. Elections. The Queensland Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland) [13] and commonly referred to simply as Queensland Labor, is the state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the state of Queensland. [14] It has functioned in the state since the 1880s.
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Gair, Vincent Clair; Birth. 25 February, 1901 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Death. 11 November, 1980 (aged 79) South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
