Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture 2005

How Democracies Fight Terrorism

The Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser AC CH examines one of the most controversial issues of our time.

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Listen to the introduction [~5 MB]	mp3	5m 41s
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Listen to part 2 [~9 MB]	mp3	9m 12s
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Malcolm Fraser was elected to Federal Parliament shortly after graduating from Oxford University. He was first appointed to the Ministry with the Army portfolio in 1966 and two years later became the Minister for Education and Science. He was appointed Minister of State for Defence in 1969, and then re-appointed to the Ministry with Cabinet rank in 1971. He served as Minister for Education and Science until 1972.

On 21 March 1975, Mr Fraser became the Leader of the Opposition and on the 11 November 1975, following the dismissal of the Labor Prime Minister, Mr Fraser was appointed Prime Minister of a caretaker government. Mr Fraser’s government was subsequently re-elected in the two succeeding elections, in 1977 and 1980. In February 1983 Mr Fraser became Australia’s second-longest serving Prime Minister. He resigned from Parliament in April 1983 after nearly 28 years as the Member for Wannon.

Mr Fraser was Chairman of CARE Australia from 1987 to December 2001, President of CARE International from 1990 to 1995, and Vice President from 1995 to 1999. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission awarded Mr Fraser the 2000 Australian Human Rights Medal.