Michael Thomas Claude Barnard (27 September 1942 – 11 December 1999) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the
Tasmanian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart.
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from 1969 to 1984, representing
Bass for the
Labor Party. He was
Deputy Premier
A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, ...
under two Labor Premiers,
Doug Lowe and
Harry Holgate from 1980 to 1982, and a long-standing Minister for Tourism (1975–82) and Health (1977–80).
Barnard had numerous family political connections. He was the grandson of
Claude Barnard and the nephew of
Lance Barnard, who both served in the
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia.
The term of members o ...
as federal members for
Bass. Claude Barnard had also held the state seat of Bass in the 1950s. Michael Barnard's retirement in 1984 ended the Barnard family's representation in Tasmanian and Australian politics.
[Barnard Family]
''The Companion to Tasmanian History'', Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies (University of Tasmania), 2006.
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1942 births
1999 deaths
Deputy Premiers of Tasmania
Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania
Politicians from Launceston, Tasmania
20th-century Australian politicians