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Exclusive: Fraser’s regret

Private notes confirm Malcolm Fraser’s anguish over condemning his Prime Minister to the scrap heap

2 April 2016

9:00 AM

2 April 2016

9:00 AM

When Malcolm Fraser went to his grave one year ago, he took with him a lingering feeling of ‘anguish’ for denouncing John Gorton as ‘not fit to hold the great office of prime minister’ in an electrifying speech that was the catalyst for Gorton’s downfall in March 1971.

For decades after, Fraser kept extraordinary handwritten notes about his relationship with Gorton in his office in Melbourne.

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Troy Bramston is a senior writer with the Australian

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