Good Riddance Malcolm Fraser

Julia said:

Um, TH, my remark was essentially tongue in cheek, though I am a bit tired of Mr Fraser's fairly constant commentary on everything.

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explod said:

I think few people are able to cross the divide and clearly understand the culture and social context of other periods in history and in particular in todays world where there seems no time or desire to study it. We seem to be just arm chair critics of everything that varies from our own little worlds.

Fraser in his time did a lot to make this country of ours great and though his politics varied from mine, I have repect for his commitment to help others, he always did that, in an unselfish way. It is a shame we seem to have few at the political level doing that today.

This is a bad thread and an insult to reasonable intelligence.

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Calliope said:

Those on the left love him because he is always prepared to do their work for them when it comes to denigrating Opposition policies. The Liberal party takes an unusual attitude to turncoats and perseveres with them. The Labor party would have ditched a trouble maker like Fraser long ago.

The ABC loves him because he is always willing to say something spiteful about his former party. It is significant that the ABC had to go to Senator Judith Troeth to find someone in the Party who would miss him. Troeth is the one who often crosses the floor to vote with the Labor Party.

It is not uncommon for people like Fraser, who think they are born to rule, to become bleeding heart liberals in their dotage. They abound in the leafy suburbs where they congregate in the knowledge that they will never have to mix with the elements whose causes they espouse.

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You had to feel for Marcia Langton on ABC TV's Q&A panel this week, stuck between two men so terminally pompous, out of touch and in love with the sound of their own voices you felt at times they might fall stiffly off their chairs and writhe on the ground in private ecstasy.

Malcolm Fraser and Peter Carey, fresh from the Sydney Writers' Festival, are the sorts of self-styled intellectuals who give thinking a bad name.

Only the two women on the panel, Langton, professor of Australian indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne, and the American author Lionel Shriver who is visiting from London, sounded halfway reasonable. But they barely got a word in over Carey, Fraser and John Ralston Saul, the Canadian philosopher whose great insight into education was the hoary old chestnut that class sizes should be smaller.

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Boyou said:

'Fess up GG...

It was you who stole his trousers that night in Memphis..

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