Papers concerning Vincent (Vince) Clare Gair, 1932-2006 [manuscript]. 1932-2006.

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Papers concerning Vincent (Vince) Clare Gair, 1932-2006 [manuscript]. 1932-2006.

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Copies of Hansard pages, political ephemera, newspaper cuttings, interview transcripts and other research material concerned with Vince Gair, and drafts of chapters from Brian Stevenson's PhD thesis on Gair.

17 boxes, 2 parcels.

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Gair, Vincent Clair, 1901-1980

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V.C. Gair was MLA for South Brisbane, 1932-1960, Secretary for Mines (1924-1947), for Labour and Employment (1947-1950); was Treasurer (1950-1952), Premier and Chief Secretary of Queensland Labor Party and the Democratic Labor Party, and was Australian Ambassador to Ireland 1974-1976. From the description of Papers of Vincent Gair, 1859-1974. 1859-1974. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221443974 ...

Stevenson, Brian F.

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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 expulsion from the Party. Parliamentary Labor split over the issue, with Gair and his supporters forming the Queensland Labor Party on a strongly anti-Communist p...