Everything about Kevin Cairns Australian Politician totally explained
Kevin Michael Kiernan Cairns (
15 May 1929 –
6 July 1984),
Australian politician and Minister for Housing.
Cairns was born and educated in
Sydney. He qualified as a dentist and pnce in parliament also gained degrees in arts and economics. At the
1963 election he was elected as the
Liberal member of the
House of Representatives seat of
Lilley in
Queensland. He was
Minister for Housing in the
junior ministry of
William McMahon from
22 March 1971 to the defeat of the McMahon government at the
1972 election, when he lost his own seat by 35 votes. He won Lilley back at the
1974 election, but was again defeated at the
1980 election.
Cairns worked as an economic consultant for the
Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation and
Mount Isa Mines. He was a member of the Independent Air Fares Committee under the
Fraser and the
Hawke governments, when the federal government regulated airfares on interstate routes. He eventually became President of the Queensland Economic Society. He was survived by his wife, Tonia and their four sons and three daughters.
Cairns was the uncle of
Clare Martin, a
Labor Party politician who was
Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 2001 to 2007.
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