Malcolm Fraser in Conversation with Margaret Simons
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- Mr Fraser is joined by Margaret Simons, freelance journalist and collaborator on the recently released memoir/biography Malcolm Fraser: Enduring Liberal.
Date: 31st March 2010
Location: Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, The University of Melbourne
Time: 6.30pm
A very important and interesting video.
On John Kerr, i don't know how all the parliamentary procedures work but i wonder if the day Geoff walked into his office if Kerr sat with Malcolm and had two documents ready, either Geoff signed to call an election, or Kerr would cosign Geoff to be dismissed, whether that would have been a better option. It would have given Geoff the chance to call an election and not cause the distrust of the labor party to the GN that still goes on today all while still protecting Kerrs job. sure it would have looked bad, as if Kerr was threatening his Prime minister, but at least a proper conversation could have been had rather than Geoff walking in and immediately being dismissed.
This is all under the assumption that he could prepare both documents without signing them and that to sac Kerr, Geoff would have required paperwork that could not be done in time to get rid of Kerr before Kerr signed for Geoffs removal should it have come down to that.
How disappointing it was to find out the truth about him
In what way was it disapointing?
What truth?
A very interesting discussion from a political leader who, due to political changes around him, has become a man without a party.
Notice, however, that he avoided giving a straight answer about whether Whitlam was a socialist, as previously defined in terms of destroying capitalism and democracy. Since the obvious answer is "No" - despite any other flaws that Whitlam clearly had - this calls into question the morality of Fraser's actions in 1975.
It was the actions of Sir John kerr, it wasn't Malcolm that sacked the Whitlam Government.
@@buzzyb12000 There was some involvement of Malcolm, not to say rightly or wrongly but Malcolm needed to sign that paper too, as well as Malcolm needed to stop the senate from passing its own paychecks something that had never been tried before and to this day is up for contention as to how legal or moral that was.
As well as many people saying that if things hadn't moved so quickly on Kerr's and Malcolm's part Malcolm probably wouldn't have been able to hold support for the freezing of the senate, and his opportunity to genuinely argue that the government had to be dismissed would have been lost.
To this day Malcolm talks about needing to sac Geoff because of his destruction of the country not because the senate wasn't functioning which was the technical justification of the dismissal. In other-words Malcolm argues that an elected government had to be removed by one man not because there was some issue with the functioning of parliament but because he believed Geoff was doing more damage to the nation than he could stand.
What is a Liberal? 🤷🏼♀️