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- Gair_Affair abstract "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. Whitlam's plan was foiled by the Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, during what came to be known as \"The Night of the Long Prawns\", but the matter was overtaken by events when Whitlam decided to call a double dissolution election.Jenny Hocking has said of the affair: \"The government's attempts to effect an additional Senate vacancy through Gair's resignation was constitutionally sound, strategically brilliant and an unmitigated political disaster.\"".
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- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
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- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1914.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1951.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1963.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1972.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1974.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Billy_Snedden.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Bob_Baudino.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Category:1974_in_Australia.
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- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Coalition_(Australia).
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Colin_Hannah.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Democratic_Labor_Party_(historical).
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Double_dissolution.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Doug_Anthony.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Federal_Executive_Council_(Australia).
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Frank_McManus_(Australian_politician).
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Garfield_Barwick.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Gough_Whitlam.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Governor-General_of_Australia.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Governor_of_Queensland.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink High_Court_of_Australia.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Ian_Wood_(politician).
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Jenny_Hocking.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Joh_Bjelke-Petersen.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Joint_Sitting_of_the_Australian_Parliament_of_1974.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Justin_OByrne.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Party_of_Australia.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Lionel_Murphy.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Magnus_Cormack.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Malcolm_Fraser.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Maurice_Byers.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink National_Party_of_Australia.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Hasluck.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Durack.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Premier_of_Queensland.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink President_of_the_Australian_Senate.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Prime_Minister_of_Australia.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Queensland.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Queensland_Labor_Party.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Menzies.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Ron_Maunsell.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Solicitor-General_of_Australia.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Tammany_Hall.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink The_Australian.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink The_Sun_News-Pictorial.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Victoria_(Australia).
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLink Vince_Gair.
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gair Affair".
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gair's acceptance of the post of Ambassador to Ireland".
- Gair_Affair wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Night of the Long Prawns".
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- Gair_Affair subject Category:1974_in_Australia.
- Gair_Affair subject Category:1974_in_politics.
- Gair_Affair subject Category:Australian_Labor_Party_history.
- Gair_Affair subject Category:Gough_Whitlam.
- Gair_Affair subject Category:Political_controversies_in_Australia.
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- Gair_Affair comment "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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