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Leading article Australia

The wrong trousers

26 March 2015

11:30 AM

26 March 2015

11:30 AM

In 1986, the year after he officially became an Eminent Person courtesy of both the United Nations and the Commonwealth, Australia’s 22nd prime minister lost his trousers in a Memphis hotel. Alone, and adrift, the specifics surrounding that event still remain opaque – but what is more intriguing is what a perfect metaphor the mystery in Memphis is for the enigma of Malcolm Fraser.

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