Jim Cairns

The Honourable Jim Cairns
Official portrait, 1974
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 (1914-10-04)4 October 1914 Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Died	12 October 2003(2003-10-12) (aged 89) Narre Warren East, Victoria, Australia
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.