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Article: Malcolm Fraser: political decadent.
- Article from:
- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Australia's progressives have a new hero: Malcolm Fraser. Two years ago, Labor Party icon and former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, "rattled off" the issues he and his former political enemy and "new mate" shared: "the republic, reconciliation, the `illegal' N.A.T.O. strike against the former Yugoslavia, opposition to U.S. plans for a nuclear missile system and the need for Australia to stay out of any conflict between China and Taiwan".
Fraser's demand for an "apology" to the Aborigines and compensation for the "stolen generations", his unremitting hostility to the United States exemplified by his rejection of the A.N.Z.U.S. Alliance and his rejection of ...