The Malcolm Fraser Collection: Links

Links

Australian prime ministerial collections

Australian Prime Ministers Centre
The Australian Prime Ministers Centre tells the story of Australia’s prime ministers and their governments through an exhibition and research centre. It is located on the main floor of the Senate Wing of Old Parliament House in Canberra.

Papers of Sir Edmund Barton
Correspondence, personal papers, press cuttings, photographs and papers relating to the Federation campaign and the first Parliament of the Commonwealth; held in the Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Australia

John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, at Curtin University of Technology, in Perth, Western Australia, was Australia’s first prime ministerial library. It aims to recognise the contribution to Australian society of wartime prime minister and international statesman, John Curtin, 1885–1945.

Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library
The Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library celebrates the significant contribution Alfred Deakin made to Australia’s political and social institutions.

Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library at the University of South Australia aims to identify, collect, conserve and make available for research and public access the Bob Hawke’s papers and memorabilia, those of his colleagues in public life, and related material from his times.

Menzies Foundation, including the Menzies Virtual Museum
The Menzies Virtual Museum is an educational resource which documents the life and achievements of Sir Robert Menzies. The site is a time line spanning Sir Robert’s life from 1894 to 1978. It contains more than 750 images, several sound and film clips and more than 80,000 words of supporting text.

Prime Ministerial Collection at the Whitlam Institute
Gough Whitlam’s physical collection of papers, diaries and photographs is being progressively placed on the world wide web.

Other Australian political collections

Dunstan Collection
Private papers, photographs, videotapes, press clippings, realia and books relating to the Hon. Donald Allan Dunstan, Premier of South Australia from 1970–1979

Evatt Collection
The Evatt Collection at Flinders University Library includes private and official correspondence covering H.V. Evatt’s private and public life mainly for the period of his term as Attorney-General and Minister of External Affairs and as Leader of the Opposition; collection of newspaper cuttings; printed matter relating to ALP, Federal elections 1940–1959, United Nations 1943–1949, Petrov Affair; books, journals, pamphlets, photographs; manuscripts of books and articles published by Evatt.

General links relating to Malcolm Fraser

Australians All: a group of Australians who have come together because of shared concerns about serious and dangerous divisions between the West and Islam, divisions which have already led to fear and alienation.

Australian biography: Malcolm Fraser
An extended interview (including video clips) with Malcolm Fraser on Australian Biography Online, a web-based biographical resource

CARE Australia
Aid organisation formed by Malcolm Fraser in 1987; part of CARE International

Dimissed! Whitlam, Fraser, Kerr and the story of 1975
An online exhibition, created by Old Parliament House

Federal election historical archive
This website, developed by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) includes news footage from the 1983, 1980 and 1977 Federal elections. The clips include Malcolm and Tamie Fraser voting in Nareen in 1980 and Malcolm Fraser making a statement following his victory in the 1977 election.

Meet a PM: Malcolm Fraser
From the Australia’s Prime Ministers portal website, created by the National Archives of Australia

National Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive holds an extensive collection of material relating to Malcolm Fraser. See the NFSA fact sheet on Malcolm Fraser for further information.

Parliament of Australia

The Soapbox
A digital archive of photographs, texts of speeches, transcripts of debates and political advertisements relating to Australian political history.