Abstract
On 8 February 1967 Gough Whitlam was elected Federal Labor leader with Lance Barnard as his deputy. It was beginning of a remarkable partnership that was most aptly illustrated by celebrated duumvirate, the smallest government... since brief Wellington Administration of 1834, when Whitlam and Barnard assumed government as a two-man ministry in December 1972. It was, however, a close relationship that went back to when they first entered Parliament. Friendship is a delicate bloom which flourishes only rarely in jungle of politics and Whitlam-Barnard connection was that seemed to transcend usual political marriage of convenience, persisting beyond inevitable tensions, and generating a unique and historically significant alliance, characterised by Kelly as one of most successful in recent years in Australian politics.
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