Malcolm Fraser

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John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH (born 21 May 1930), Australian politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, came to power in the circumstances of the dismissal of the Whitlam government. After two huge election victories and many legislative achievements, he was defeated by Bob Hawke in 1983, and ended his career alienated from his own party.

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• Life wasn't meant to be easy.
  • Fraser's best known phrase, generally taken as a gloomy explanation of life's difficulties, but for him rather it was a reason to take on difficult tasks. Not widely recognised as being in fact a quotation from George Bernard Shaw's play Back to Methuselah: "Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful".[1] Well known from his Alfred Deakin lecture speech (20 July 1971, [2]), but he'd used it or known the sentiment for many years prior. (Per interview with Fraser for Australian Biography project, 1994, transcript.)

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• Malcolm Fraser - Australia's Prime Ministers / National Archives of Australia

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