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  Malcolm Fraser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH (born 21 May 1930), Australian politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, came to power in the circumstances of the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
Fraser's economic record was marred by rising unemployment.
Fraser was heavily defeated by Hawke in the election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malcolm_Fraser   (1513 words)

  
 Malcolm Fraser: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fraser was educated at Melbourne Grammar School (additional info and facts about Melbourne Grammar School) and completed a degree in politics and economics at Oxford University (A university in England) in 1952.
Fraser contested the seat of Wannon, in Victoria's Western District (additional info and facts about Western District), in 1954 for the Liberal Party (A major political party in Great Britain in the 19th century; now the third largest; advocated reforms and improvement of the conditions of working people), losing by 17 votes.
Fraser's economic record was marred by soaring unemployment (The state of being unemployed or not having a job), which reached record levels under his administration.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/malcolm_fraser.htm   (1420 words)

  
 Malcolm Fraser (surveyor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Malcolm Fraser was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1834.
Fraser was recruited to the position by then Governor of Western Australia Frederick Weld, who had formerly been Premier of New Zealand and knew Fraser personally from that time.
Fraser commenced as surveyor-general on 19 December 1870.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malcolm_Fraser_(surveyor)   (578 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Malcolm Fraser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fraser was educated at exclusive private schools and completed a degree in politics and economics at Oxford University in 1952.
Fraser contested the seat of Wannon, in Victoria's Western District, in 1954 for the Liberal Party, and won it in 1955, becoming the youngest member of the House of Representatives.
Malcolm Fraser (born May 21 1930), Australian politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, came to power in the controversial circumstances of the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Malcolm-Fraser   (626 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 24/8/2000: Fraser makes passionate plea for moral leadership
MALCOLM FRASER: I'm not sure that the courts can fix this because the courts have to judge the cases on the basis of the law of the time.
MALCOLM FRASER: In Canada, nobody believes that the country is being broken up, nobody believes that the country is any the less one country as a consequence of it.
MALCOLM FRASER: Well, they would because the Government has put it around that if there is an official apology it means today's Australians are guilty for the things that happened in the 1800s, in the early parts of the 1900s.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s167348.htm   (1605 words)

  
 Fraser, Malcolm on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He became leader of the coalition in 1975 in oppostion, and prime minister after the Labor government of Gough Whitlam was dismissed.
Fed: Former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser to be honoured
Fed: Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to be honoured
www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FraserJ1M1a.asp   (417 words)

  
 Prime Minister - John Malcolm Fraser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Malcolm Fraser was born in Melbourne on 21 May 1930, the younger of the two children of John Neville and Una (Woolf) Fraser.
Malcolm Fraser lived with his parents on their pastoral property on the New South Wales side of the Murray River, north of Deniliquin.
With Malcolm Fraser as Leader of the Opposition and Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister, the two men who as backbenchers had been awarded leadership grants ten years before, were now antagonists on the floor of the House of Representatives.
www.gavmag.com /australia/pm_fraser.htm   (2133 words)

  
 Janet Holmes a Court
Malcolm Fraser was Australia’s Prime Minister from 1975 to 1983.
Malcolm Fraser instructed his party to block the budget, thereby starving the Whitlam Labor government of the money it needed to run the country.
On his journey from carefree country boy to politician and diplomat, Malcolm Fraser has been driven by a sense of public duty and has stood up for what he believes is right and fair.
www.abc.net.au /btn/australians/mfraser.htm   (631 words)

  
 Common-Place Seminar - Malcolm Fraser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fraser described how he began his career as a community architect in Wester Hailes, where he learned the importance of public spaces and how this could be achieved on very tight budgets.
Fraser explained that the richness comes out of many Malcolm Fraser Architects buildings, such as the Pizza Express in Stockbridge and the Opal Lounge, also in Edinburgh, only when people use the building as a common space.
Malcolm Fraser was born, raised and schooled in Edinburgh.
www.scottisharchitecture.com /new-articles-00080.html   (477 words)

  
 Papers of H. Malcolm Fraser
Henry Malcolm Fraser was born in Wandsworth in 1874, the first of four children born of the second marriage of James Fraser, a prosperous Colonial Broker who had two adult children from his first marriage.
Malcolm Fraser entered enthusiastically into Staffordshire life, in particular as a member of the North Staffordshire Field Club, a society researching the natural history and archaeology of the area.
Malcolm Fraser was also closely involved with the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA), serving as a member of the Council until the reorganisation in 1945.
www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/fraser.html   (496 words)

  
 Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens-Malcolm Fraser Biography
Malcolm Fraser had first come to public attention as an artist when at the age of eighteen he exhibited with the Black and White Club at the Salmagundi Club galleries in New York.
Malcolm Fraser was voted an honorary member of the International Mark Twain Society for his contribution to American Art; and he was also an honorary member of the Orlando Art Association.
Malcolm Fraser was the father of one daughter, Phyllis, who married Frank A. Champlain at Brookhaven, Long Island, New York.
www.ormondartmuseum.org /FraserBio.htm   (2289 words)

  
 Australian Biography - Malcolm Fraser
Fraser v/o: Now the conventional wisdom of Machiavelli is that he was a terrible person, advocating terrible things, but the truth of it is that he never advocated anything.
Fraser sync: if they have no capacity, no legal means of arguing for their freedom and achieving it, ultimately they only have the force and power they can muster with their arms.
Fraser sync: in our negotiating concept the steps that the ANC would have to take before the government could realistically be expected to sit down with them, and also the steps that the government would have to take.
www.australianbiography.gov.au /fraser/scripttext.html   (3450 words)

  
 Malcolm Fraser. People of the Liberal Party of Australia. Liberals.Net: Liberal Party of Australia
John Malcolm Fraser was born on 21 May, 1930 in Toorak, Victoria, to a wealthy rural Victorian family.
Fraser was often considered to be from the "landed gentry".
Malcolm Fraser was elected to the Parliament, winning the seat of Wannon in 1955, at only 25 years of age.
www.liberals.net /malcolmfraser.htm   (656 words)

  
 Fraser, (John) Malcolm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fraser attended Magdalen College, Oxford, and was elected a Liberal member of Parliament in 1955.
Fraser's government was again successful in elections held in 1977 and 1980, but it was defeated by the Labor Party in an election held in March 1983.
Fraser immediately resigned as party leader and shortly thereafter resigned his seat in Parliament.
www.gaiaguys.net /fraser.htm   (167 words)

  
 John Malcolm Fraser
Fraser's background - the Western District of Victoria, where fine colonial homesteads stand amid prosperous pastures - is about the closest that Australia knows to the traditions of the English 'landed gentry' Fraser was the descendant of three generations of pastoral wealth and conservatism when he was born in 1930.
Fraser's instruction to the Liberal senators to block the 1975 budget in the Senate was an unprecedented political manoeuvre.
Fraser introduced reforms such as direct payment of family allowances to mothers, an increased federal role in Aboriginal affairs and a number of initiatives in the areas of human rights, civil liberties and the environment.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5557/fraser.html   (1878 words)

  
 Scottish Design Awards - Architect of the Year
Malcolm Fraser was named Scottish Architect of the Year in 2002.
Fraser's second major achievement, in October, was Dance Base's nomination for the Stirling Prize.
In the last 12 months, Malcolm Fraser Architects has also completed the Holyrood Park Education Centre, while designs for the Netherbow Storytelling Centre and the Dance Factory in Newcastle are on the drawing board.
www.thedrum.co.uk /architect.php   (593 words)

  
 Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Fraser
The Fraser Coalition government was returned with the largest landslide of any federal election a month later, and remained in office until 1983.
Malcolm Fraser emerges from Parliament House on 11 November 1975, after announcing that Governor-General Sir John Kerr had appointed him caretaker Prime Minister.
Malcolm Fraser had an important influence on the changing relations of countries within the British Commonwealth, and on shaping Australia’s relations with the countries of East and Southeast Asia.
primeministers.naa.gov.au /meetpm.asp?pmId=22   (218 words)

  
 Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens-Introduction to Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser, a Canadian citizen and internationally known artist, was a winter resident of Orlando, Florida, and frequent visitor to the Ormond Beach area.
Fraser was willing to make an outright gift of a series of 56 paintings as a War Memorial to a Florida east coast city that would provide a suitable building to house the paintings, agree to maintain it thereafter and make it available to the public.
Fraser's widow, Mary Aldrich Fraser, donated five more of her husband's paintings to the Museum.
www.ormondartmuseum.org /malcolmFraser.htm   (470 words)

  
 Malcolm Fraser - Biographical Information
Born in Melbourne in 1930, Malcolm Fraser grew up on farming properties in NSW and Victoria.
On his return to Australia, Fraser entered politics and at the age of 25 was elected the Liberal member for Wannon in Victoria, a seat previously held by the Labor Party.
Fraser is perhaps most remembered for his role in the political upheaval of 1975, a series of events which commentators continue to scrutinize.
www.australianbiography.gov.au /fraser/bio.html   (214 words)

  
 Old Parliament House - Personalities - Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser was elected to Government amidst the controversial circumstances of the dismissal, and for some Australians he never shook off the stigma of his role in that event.
Fraser attended launches of Pickering’s publications, even writing the foreword to one of his books.
Fraser’s considerable height (6 feet 4 inches) dominates the frame replete with large hands and broad shoulders, while ample eyebrows frame deadpan eyes positioned altogether too close to a prominent nose.
www.oph.gov.au /content.asp?pageID=128   (292 words)

  
 malcolm fraser personal site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Starting his career in the fledging New Zealand electronics industry, Malcolm has over 20 years business experience in high technology industries, and has held a number of executive roles with international firms, both private and publicly-listed.
Prior to founding his first business (Agitavi Research) in 2002, Malcolm headed up Cap Gemini Ernst and Young’s mobility practice for Asia Pacific, and was part of their global mobility centre of excellence based in Sweden.
Malcolm holds an MBA from Southern Cross University, and is now researching and completing a thesis on…Delocalisation of the ICT Value Chain: Collaboration Strategies for SMEs.
www.malcolmfraser.net   (117 words)

  
 Malcolm Fraser Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ Karr.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Malcolm Fraser --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
John Malcolm Fraser was born on May 21, 1930, at Nareen, in the state of Victoria, Australia.
As prime minister of New Zealand from 1940 to 1949, Peter Fraser steered his country through the crisis of World War II and helped lay the foundations for the United Nations organization in the years 1945 to 1948.
Conductor Malcolm Sargent toured throughout the world as England's self-styled “ambassador or music.” He conducted both choral and orchestral music, and his recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan with the D'Oyly Carte Opera company are renowned.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274420   (648 words)

  
 Biography - Malcolm Fraser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mr Fraser was born in Melbourne on 21 May 1930.
Before being appointed Leader of the Liberal Party in March 1975, Mr Fraser held a number of portfolio positions, including that of Minister for the Army in January 1966, Minister for Education and Science in February 1968, and Minister of State for Defence in November 1969.
In November 1975, following the dismissal of the Labor Prime Minister, Mr Fraser was appointed Prime Minister of a Caretaker Government pending the outcome of a General Election.
www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au /cpp/dunlop2000lect/fraserbio.html   (378 words)

  
 MobyGames - Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser was credited on a game as early as 1998 and as recently as 1999.
Malcolm Fraser has been credited with the roles Quality Assurance.
Malcolm Fraser has been credited on games developed by the following companies: VIS entertainment ltd.
www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/view/developerId,68526   (146 words)

  
 Sciennes, Edinburgh, Sciennes House, Malcolm Fraser
The house was dark had a breeze block extension and the south elevation was a blank gable wall.
The clients had approached a number of Architects but were impressed by a visit to Malcolm Fraser Architects’ Scottish Poetry Library.
Internally a similarly limited palette of slate to the floor, rotary cut birch kitchen doors and shelves, and lacquered ply to doors and wall panels in the service corridor, was used.
www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk /sciennes_wightman.htm   (478 words)

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