Malcolm Fraser
Tony Wright’s Column
US Votes 2024
Would a democracy hot dog move enough Americans to vote down a tyrant?
One in three eligible voters can’t be bothered to have a say in US presidential elections. Yet voting can – and should – be a passion and pleasure.
- by Tony Wright
Latest
Opinion
Column 8
Family union in a league of its own
Grandson’s finals matches provide brain training for grandparents.
Investigation
Political leadership
The deepening mystery of a Peter Dutton apology
Calls by the opposition leader to halt arrivals from Gaza have fuelled doubts over whether he ever apologised for earlier comments about Muslim immigration.
- by Patrick Begley
Editorial
Cabinet paper release
Bureaucratic amnesia forgets freedom of information
The discovery of a cache of sensitive federal cabinet documents that had been forgotten and left lying around gathering dust for more than 40 years is possibly even too far-fetched for political satire.
- The Herald's View
How November 11, 1975, sparked a siege that imprisoned a prime minister
After governor-general John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government, new prime minister Malcolm Fraser became the target of students activists at Monash University.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Political leadership
Australians are too modest, our nation is much greater than America
Patriotism is irksome, but that’s no reason to shy away from acknowledging our country’s achievements, and its one great flaw.
- by Gary Newman
A ‘litany of lies’ or a document of ‘grace and generosity’? Voice debate sparks war of words
Healthy debate is constructive, but not when your agenda is aggressively espousing unnecessary division.
Opinion
Voice to parliament
My grandfather Malcolm Fraser would have found ‘If you don’t know, vote No’ abhorrent
If Australia returns a majority No vote, we will wake up on October 15 with no plan to improve Indigenous people’s lives. My grandfather would have implored us to consider the consequences of choosing to do nothing.
- by Samantha Marshall
Opinion
Voice to parliament
A fishing trip with a new PM says so much about why a Voice to parliament is needed
The barramundi were of more interest than issues of crucial importance to the people of Arnhem Land.
- by Megan Davis
‘Profound and personal’: A witness to political trauma and farce
Whether it was with drunk, missing or newly coined prime ministers, Tony Eggleton, who died on Saturday, played a role in three key moments of Australian political history.
- by Niki Savva
Updated
Liberal Party
Liberals mourn ‘champion’ federal director Tony Eggleton
A key figure in the party over four decades, Eggleton was thrust into the national spotlight upon the disappearance of Harold Holt in 1967.
- by David Crowe
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/malcolm-fraser-45h