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METROFYI 2 THE AGE FRIDAY 8 AUGUST 1997 The Hottest A question for Peter Klrby Chronicles Obituary Anniversaries 5 Loyal deputy, ALP's quiet hero 1963: Gang holds up Glasgow-London mail train and steals 2.6 million In Britain's "Great Train Robbery." 1974: US President Richard Nixon announces he is resigning over the Watergate scandal. I Lance Herbert Barnard Vjce-regal notes Federal: Yesterday, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General administered the requisite Oath of Office to the Administrator of the Territory of Norfolk Island, Anthony J. Messner. Later, he and Lady Deane gave a small reception for Mr and Mrs Messner. State: On Wednesday, Lady Gobbo visited Box Hill Hospital.

The Governor, Sir James Gobbo, and Lady Gobbo visited Ozanam House. The Governor received the call of Professor Michael Crommelin, dean, faculty of law, University of Melbourne, accompanied by Professor Gilles Guyot. president, University of Jean Moulin, in Leon, France. On Thursday, the Governor attended the Victorian College of the Arts 25th Anniversary lunch. He and Lady Gobbo held a late afternoon reception at Government House to mark the official birthday of Her Majesty The Queen.

NT? YtU i1 niii'ir U-r'Jr Curiosities Yet his value to the ALP became apparent in 1975 when, having lost the deputy leadership to Dr jim Cairns the previous year, Barnard resigned from Parliament to become Australia's ambassador to Sweden. In a byelection, his seat of Bass was won by the Liberals in a stunning 17 per cent swing that is widely credited with signalling the beginning of the end of the Whitlam Government. Barnard's appointment caused a political uproar, yet he proved a popular ambassador. Indeed, one of his few difficulties in the post concerned his efforts to avoid accepting a knighthood, recommended by the Eraser Government, in the 1976 birthday honors list. The offer of the knighthood was made at least three times.

Three times the ambassador rejected it. On the final occasion, Barnard was told that approval for the honor had already come from Buckingham Palace. He still refused. The Government gave up. On his return to Australia in 1978, Barnard indicated that he was interested in contesting his old seat.

Opinion polls gave him an 1 1 per cent advantage over the sitting Liberal, Kevin Newman, but for health reasons, he finally declined to go forward. Two years later, however, he emerged from retirement to accept the post of director of Australian War Graves. After Barnard's death in a Melbourne hospital on Wednesday, Whitlam said he had lost his "oldest and best "At every stage in our years together, I drew strength from his staunchness, his advice, his common sense and, above all. from his decency and integrity. He was at his best when things seemed worst." Whitlam.

said Barnard had a deep understanding of the needs and hopes of Australian people and a rare capacity to translate that understanding into political action. "The immense debt I owe Lance Barnard is shared by the whole-Australian l-abor movement and by all Australians who honor service of the highest order to our parliamentary democracy. Barnard is survived by his wife Jill, son Nicholas, and daughters Patricia, Suzanne and Jaqueline. James Cunningham and AAP Deputy Prime Minister in Whitlam Labor Government Born: Launceston, 1 May 1919 Died: Melbourne, 6 August 1997, aged 78 LANCE BARNARD began his career as a schoolteacher in Tasmania and went on in an unprecedented display of political virtuosity to hold 14 Federal Cabinet portfolios at the same time. Barnard's astonishing performance occurred In the uniquely innovative early days of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1972.

For three weeks after the ALP's victory, Whitlam and Barnard shared 27 Government ministries between them. Critics called it a two-man dictatorship. Yet, observers, with just a touch of cynicism, remarked that the quality of government actually declined as other ministers were sworn in. It seems however, that anything quite like it will' ever be seen again. Speaking of this period years later, Barnard said: "Only Whitlam could have brought it about.

We just sat down and made the decisions. The speed didn't worry me. We knew what we were doing. "Our parliamentary colleagues were intrigued. Naturally, those waiting to get into the Cabinet were a bit anxious." Barnard maintained that if they had been so minded, both he and Mr Whitlam could have drawn salaries for all the portfolios they held, but he contented himself with the wage of Deputy Opposition Leader.

Whitlam stayed with his Opposition Leader's pay. When Cabinet appointments were finally sorted, out Barnard, nearly 33 years after he had enlisted in the AIF as a private soldier, found himself Minister for Defence and Deputy Prime Minister. But not everyone was surprised. Lance Herbert Barnard came from a political family. His father, Claude Barnard, had been Minister for Repatriation in the 1949 Chifley Government and subsequently sat in the Tasmanian Parliament.

Lance Barnard was born in Launceston and educated in local state and technical high schools. The outbreak of World War II interrupted his training as a teacher. He served with the 28th Field Regiment of the 9th Division in the Middle East, taking part in the defence of Egypt against Rommel's advance and in the 8th Army's offensive at El Alamein. 8 Good government and an Independent bureaucracy is threatened by the Federal Government proposed changes to the Public Service, say critics. Are they right? IT IS always a letdown to hear people whom you respect doing their best to use good English but mucking it up.

Thus, the estimable Betty Churcher, in an ABC-TV interview last week on her retirement as director of the National Gallery, Canberra, used the phrase "between my brother and And Neil Mitchell has been heard to say "between he and This common error results from the commendable desire to avoid such solecisms as "him and me are The 1996 edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage: "The nation is divided in its use of between you and me and between you and I The only admissible construction of the two in standard use in the 20th century is between you and me." Gary Dean Muslim prayer times Prayer times for today, the 5th Rabiul Thanil418 Hijri: am, pm, pm, pm, 1:7.04 pm. Sabbath candles Lighting time for Sabbath candles is 5.20 pm. Sabbath ends at 6.19 pm tomorrow. During the war, Barnard spent more than four years overseas and was twice wounded. As the legacy of gunfire, he also suffered a permanent hearing disability.

Leaving the army as a lieutenant, Barnard became a teacher, an officer in a cadet unit and an active member of the ALP. He won the federal seat of Bass, which eventually occupied a special niche in the ALP's lexicon of horrors, in 1954. An even-Jempered, quietly spoken man, Barnard became deputy leader of the Labor Party in 1967. He opposed conscription, particularly in its selective form, but advocated strengthening the defence force, especially the air force, by other means. His chance to lead came a year later when Whitlam rather petulantly resigned the leadership over some internal party divisions.

But he stood aside and devoted his energies to get dough returned once more as chief and thus one step closer to the prime ministership. He said afterwards: "Without Mr Whitlam, I don't think we would have won in 1972." The working partnership between the brilliant, charismatic Whitlam and the unpretentious, hard-working but somewhat plodding Barnard, struck many observers as strange. But it was a close and genuine rapport. Barnard, recognising that his place was as number two, represented no threat to the leader. THE proposed changes acknowledge that the it Westminster model passed away at least 25 years ago.

Some would argue it never had much of a lift Ufe in the first place. In the past, public service tenure provided maintenance of income rather than position. There may have been more politicisation of the senior Public Service since '72 (although with the same party in government for 23 years before then, how can we be sure?) but there has also been retention of most senior officers and a healthy renewal of talent as governments have changed. Able people will continue to be attracted to the Public Service by the salaries and conditions, a wish to serve, or both. Relations between ministers and senior officers will continue to be affected by many factors but, least of all, the content of the Public Service Act.

Offering frank and fearless advice (for courageous decision-making?) will always have more to do with knowledge, experience, ethics and integrity than permanency. An end to this mongrel of a system. Let's have a sensible, balanced replacement. And, as a quid pro quo, let's give senior public servants the freedom to comment on government policies. Peter Kirby is a former secretary of the state Department of Education and former head of the Victorian Premier's Department.

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