Lance Barnard
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Lance Herbert Barnard AO was an Australian politician and diplomat who served as the third deputy prime minister of Australia from 1972 to 1974. He was the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party
Barnard in 1973
Barnard in the 1950s.
Barnard (left) with Gough Whitlam in 1969
Jim Cairns
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James Ford Cairns was an Australian politician who was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Treasurer and the fourth deputy prime minister of Australia, both in
Lance Barnard
…Defence. He subsequently oversaw the merger of several smaller departments into the Department of Defence. In 1974, Barnard lost the deputy leadership to Jim Cairns but remained in the defence portfolio. He resigned from parliament in 1975 to become ambassador to Norway, Finland and Sweden, triggering a by-election…
Official portrait, 1974
Cairns c. 1956
Cairns c. 1962
Cairns at Nambassa, 1981