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'On Remembrance Day 1975 no one could have imagined that the two men at the heart of Australia's most controversial political coup could ever be friends...'
'Malcolm Fraser has completed his journey from Australia's most controversial prime ministers to humanitarian and, finally, praised political elder statesman...'
'When he became caretaker Prime Minister, after Gough Whitlam was sacked, Malcolm Fraser was booed as he left parliament that afternoon and jeered wherever he went, not just during the 1975 election campaign but throughout his campaign but throughout his seven years in the Lodge...'
'Malcolm Fraser's was one of Australia's most successful conservative politicians and although he is widely perceived to have veered to the left in his later years, his passing marks the end of an era...'