Jim Cairns | |
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![]() Cairns in 1976 | |
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia | |
In office 12 June 1974 – 2 July 1975 | |
Prime Minister | Gough Whitlam |
Preceded by | Lance Barnard |
Succeeded by | Frank Crean |
Treasurer of Australia | |
In office 11 December 1974 – 6 June 1975 | |
Prime Minister | Gough Whitlam |
Preceded by | Frank Crean |
Succeeded by | Bill Hayden |
Minister for the Environment | |
In office 6 June 1975 – 2 July 1975 | |
Prime Minister | Gough Whitlam |
Preceded by | Moss Cass |
Succeeded by | Gough Whitlam |
Minister for Overseas Trade | |
In office 19 December 1972 – 11 December 1974 | |
Prime Minister | Gough Whitlam |
Preceded by | Gough Whitlam |
Succeeded by | Frank Crean |
Minister for Secondary Industry | |
In office 19 December 1972 – 9 October 1973 | |
Prime Minister | Gough Whitlam |
Preceded by | Gough Whitlam |
Succeeded by | Kep Enderby |
Deputy Leader of the Labor Party | |
In office 12 June 1974 – 2 July 1975 | |
Leader | Gough Whitlam |
Preceded by | Lance Barnard |
Succeeded by | Frank Crean |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Yarra | |
In office 10 December 1955 – 25 October 1969 | |
Preceded by | Stan Keon |
Succeeded by | Division abolished |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Lalor | |
In office 25 October 1969 – 10 November 1977 | |
Preceded by | Mervyn Lee |
Succeeded by | Barry Jones |
Personal details | |
Born | James Ford Cairns 4 October 1914 Carlton, Victoria, Australia |
Died | 12 October 2003 Narre Warren East, Victoria, Australia | (aged 89)
Political party | Australian Labor Party |
Spouse | Gwen Robb |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Occupation | Policeman, lecturer |
James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 – 12 October 2003) 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 the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also an economist, and a prolific writer on economic and social issues, many of them self-published and self-marketed at stalls he ran across Australia after his retirement.
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