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She died in an accident five years later. State parliamentary career. Gair in 1938. The Queensland state electorate of South Brisbane was held from 1929 to 1932 by Neil MacGroarty, Attorney-General in the government of Arthur Moore.
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- Background
- Vince Gair
- The Night of The Long Prawns
- Gair's Letter
- Double Dissolution and Aftermath
At the 1972 election, Gough Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to its first success at the federal level in 23 years. Although another election for the House of Representatives was not due until early 1976, an election for half the Senate was required earlier. Normally, these elections are held on the same day, but they had become out of synchr...
Vincent Clair Gair was a former Australian Labor Party (ALP) Premier of Queensland 1952-57 who was expelled from his own party while in office, and formed the breakaway Queensland Labor Party (QLP), which in 1962 merged with the Democratic Labor Party (DLP). In 1964 he was elected to federal parliament as a DLP Senator for Queensland, his term comm...
On the morning of 2 April, The Sun News-Pictorial newspaper broke the news of Gair's appointment to Ireland. In Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition, Billy Snedden, asked Prime Minister Whitlam to come clean. He readily confirmed the appointment. Snedden decried it as shameful and "worse than any Tammany Hall effort that has ever been made in t...
In the afternoon of 3 April, Gair was finally able to have his formal advice about his status conveyed to Sir Magnus Cormackthrough the Clerk of the Senate. However, it was not so much a letter of resignation, as a letter advising of his constitutional ineligibility to remain a senator due to his acceptance of the ambassadorship - the very argument...
In the evening of 10 April the whole matter became academic when Gough Whitlam advised the House of Representatives that Governor-General Hasluck had agreed to a double dissolution, the election for both houses to be held on the already announced date of 18 May 1974. The Parliament was dissolved on 11 April. In his valedictory remarks, Sir Magnus C...
He returned to Brisbane on 12 March and withdrew from public life. Survived by his wife and their two sons, he died on 11 November 1980 in South Brisbane; he was accorded a state funeral and was buried in Nudgee cemetery. Vince Gair was above all a controversial figure.
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Vincent Clare Gair: Alternative Names: Vincent Clair Gair ; Born: 25 February, 1901 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Died: 11 November, 1980 (aged 79) South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Cultural Heritage: Irish; Scottish
Aug 21, 2021 · Vincent Clair Gair belonged to the Old Testament. Father Barney McLaughlin, panegyric for Vince Gair, November 1980. Quoted by Jim Killen in Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates House of Representatives, 25 November 1980 pp 39-40. His critics have bled him to death and bottled his blood. Nell Gair, Herald (Melbourne), 17 October 1981.
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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 ...
