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The Whitlam Government: Barnard and Whitlam: A Significant Historical Dyad

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posted on 2023-05-16, 10:46 authored by Michael Powell
On 8 February 1967 Gough Whitlam was elected Federal Labor leader with Lance Barnard as his deputy. It was the beginning of a remarkable partnership that was most aptly illustrated by the celebrated duumvirate, "the smallest government... since the brief Wellington Administration of 1834", when Whitlam and Barnard assumed government as a two-man ministry in December 1972. It was, however, a close relationship that went back to when they first entered Parliament. "Friendship is a delicate bloom which flourishes only rarely in the jungle of politics" and the Whitlam-Barnard connection was one that seemed to transcend the usual political "marriage of convenience", persisting beyond the inevitable tensions, and generating a unique and historically significant alliance, characterised by Kelly as "one of the most successful in recent years in Australian politics".

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Publication title

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volume

43

Pagination

183-199

ISSN

0004-9522

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

University of Queensland Press

Place of publication

108 Cowley Rd, Oxford, England, Oxon, Ox4 1Jf

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