Archive for 'Malcolm Fraser'
Exposing the reality of Fraser’s treatment of Vietnamese refugees
Posted by John, March 21st, 2015 - under Malcolm Fraser, Refugees, Vietnam.
Tags: Asylum seekers
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This is from 2012 but is an excellent debunking of the myth of Fraser’s ‘ humanitarian’ treatment of Vietnamese refugees when he actually had power. Here is part of what historian Rachel Stevens says: The resettlement of the Vietnamese refugees was an unfamiliar challenge for the Fraser government, just a few years after the formal […]
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Malcolm Fraser – a class enemy
Posted by John, March 20th, 2015 - under Malcolm Fraser, Ruling class.
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When I was standing outside Parliament House on 11 November 1975 (my 22nd birthday) I didn’t think Malcolm Fraser was a hero. I thought he was a bastard, a ruling class bastard. I still do and not just for riding roughshod over democracy. He then went on to cut health and education spending and tried to smash unions.
Malcolm Fraser and the years of rage
Posted by John, August 17th, 2012 - under Malcolm Fraser, Socialist Alternative, Tom O'Lincoln, Years of Rage.
Tags: Class collaboration, Class struggle, Classes
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Tom O’Lincoln has just republished his wonderful book Years of Rage: Social Conflict in the Fraser Era. This is a Monet of a book in which the daub of detail creates a canvas of class conflict, stretching from Kerr’s coup through the 7 years of the Fraser Governments to the election of the Hawke Labor Government in 1983.