Michael Barnard (politician)

Michael Barnard
Deputy Premier of Tasmania
In office 29 August 1980 – 27 May 1982
Premier	Doug Lowe (1980–81) Harry Holgate (1981–82)
Preceded by	Neil Batt
Succeeded by	Max Bingham
Personal details
Born	Michael Thomas Claude Barnard 27 September 1942 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Died	11 December 1999 (aged 57) Queensland, Australia
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Relations	Claude Barnard (grandfather) Lance Barnard (uncle)

Michael Thomas Claude Barnard (27 September 1942 – 11 December 1999) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1969 to 1984, representing Bass for the Australian Labor Party. He was Deputy Premier 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 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.^[1]

References

1. Barnard Family, The Companion to Tasmanian History, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies (University of Tasmania), 2006.

External links

• Tasmanian Parliamentary profile