Vale Malcolm Fraser

[Ice-Wolf]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...alcolm-fraser-dead-at-84-20150319-1m3jm6.html

Whilst he'll never be forgiven by the left for the dismissal, since leaving politics he has been a statesman that all could respect.

Vale Malcolm, they don't make Liberal Politicians like you any more.

 

[Long Live HFC]

yeah, am too young to remember his politics, but certainly carried himself well outside of parliament. I like that him and gough became good mates.

 

[Gough]

Whitlam, Fraser, and Uren inside a year. Curtain really is being drawn on an era of Australian politics.
Vale.

 

[kirky]

It was the Dismissal that got me interested in politics at high school and my contempt for M Fraser was at its zenith during his PMship. He like myself have mellowed over the years and as Gough was prepared to accept the friendship of Malcolm, I too accepted.

Sadly, we have lost PMs the past 12 months who would sh*it on the more recent lot - what has our country become?

 

[Hank Scorpion]

Sad news, especially following Gough's death a few months ago.

Vale

 

[Maggie5]

Wouldn't mind eavesdropping on Whitlam, Fraser, and Uren right now.
Still have respect for him and his views in his later years.

 

[Jascave]

So, there closes the book on the 1975 Dismissal. Kerr, Whitlam and now Fraser, all have passed away.


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[Nikita Blue]

Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, later a Leftist critic of the Liberals, has died.

What a charmer Bolt is.

 

[CURVE]

I suppose we needed some stability and rebuilding after the Whitlam years, but I think his conservative government went a few years too long. Some of the idea's that Hawke and Keating instigated in 1983-85 (such as the floating of the dollar) should have been instigated by Fraser and Howard.

He was a better person and statesman after his time politics when he mellowed.

Vale Malcolm Fraser.

 

[Gough]

Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, later a Leftist critic of the Liberals, has died.

What a charmer Bolt is.

The nation will mourn Fraser, and largely remember him fondly. Bolt will never be remembered as anything more than a skid mark on this country's underwear.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, later a Leftist critic of the Liberals, has died.

What a charmer Bolt is.

Giving a shit about human rights and international law makes you a Leftist.

 

[raghav]

He reached the highest office in the land which makes him an Australian of some significance, he like everyone of us had imperfections but he deserves to RIP.

 

[raghav]

You have no class at all.

He/It is still shitface that Chan and Sukumaran haven't been zapped yet.

 

[carnthemlions]

In some ways, he was a better person than he was a politician in the end. He will be missed.
It will be interesting to see how the Liberal Party deals with this- he wasn't one of them in the end.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[swingdog]

RIP.

Very much a man of his times - couldn't bring himself to modernise the economy the way Howard, his Treasurer in the later years wanted, but ahead of much of the population (oddly, by adhering to his liberal principles) in accepting the boat people and helping modernise society by broadening its cultural base.

If you ever want to see what went wrong with Australian politics, look at the sniping from the Tea Party lite elements today. Before we started engaging in culture wars (as opposed to class wars which were largely fought out through different economic visions of left and right), there would have been respect and a buttoning of the lip on the day someone died. No more. Apart from it being petty and childish it just encourages the worst kind of politician because that's what gets them kudos.

 

[Todman]

The only PM that I knew on a personal level.

Will Robert Mugabe be at the state funeral?

 

[swingdog]

The only PM that I knew on a personal level.

How did you know him, Todman?

 

[Gough]

 

[Admiral Byng]

Back then people could be conservatives and still be compassionate and decent people at heart.

That era is gone now, sadly.

 

[madmug]

Veered left in his later years but at least he stopped Whitlam's reign of economic destruction.

No he did not. He was a self labelled 'l'iberal not a 'C'onservative. It is the party that has lurched to the nasty right.

Listening to Howard it was clear that Frazer was, like Whitlam, not economically gifted.

Frazer has died suddenly, it is a sad occasion for his family & all of us really. He was certainly a statesman. He did his best for the country as he saw it. He did a lot in his 8 years as PM & the many years since. He should & will be respected for that.

 

[Todman]

How did you know him, Todman?

Cattle auctions

 

[Jiska]

Sigh.... Here we go again....

As it was with Gough Whitlam, this is a thread for tributes. It you can't leave your politcial bias at the door, don't post.

The man has just passed away. Show some respect.

 

[Slax]

Vale John Malcolm Fraser, a man who whilst still leaves many divided to this days by some of his actions in 1975, tried throughout his terms to leave a better Australia for future generations which gave all a chance to prosper.

It is also worth noting that as a man he changed his political views very little from his time in power until the present day, yet his views are seen by many to be on the left of the ALP on virtually all social welfare issues. He is also a man who despised everything that the modern Liberal Party stood for and wanted nothing to do with them. (In much the same way as Republicans from Regan's era do with the current Republican movement) Showing just how far this country has lurched to the extreme right.

 

[expires]

Whitlam, Fraser, and Uren inside a year. Curtain really is being drawn on an era of Australian politics.
Vale.

Interesting word to use.

One of his last ideas was to cut defence ties with the U.S. Worried about us not being able to make our own strategic decisions. Would make us a different nation if we did.