Timeline of the life of Malcolm Fraser
1930s |
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21 May 1930 |
John Malcolm Fraser is born in Toorak, Melbourne |
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1940s |
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February 1940–December 1943 |
Attends Tudor House Anglican school in New South Wales |
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1943 |
The Fraser family moves from New South Wales to Nareen, a property near Coleraine in western Victoria |
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February 1944–December 1948 |
Attends Melbourne Grammar School |
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1949 |
Malcolm Fraser enrols at the University of Oxford to study Modern Greats (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) |
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1950s |
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1952 |
Graduates from the University of Oxford |
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11 November 1953 |
Wins pre-selection for the seat of Wannon in western Victoria |
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1954 |
Stands unsuccessfully for the seat of Wannon, but loses by only seventeen votes |
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10 December 1955 |
Wins the seat of Wannon by more than 7000 votes |
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22 February 1956 |
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9 December 1956 |
Marries Tamara Beggs |
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1960s |
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1961 |
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Federal election |
1962 |
Neville Fraser, Malcolm Fraser’s father, dies |
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1964 |
Malcolm Fraser is co-recipient – with Gough Whitlam – of a United States Government Leader Grant to travel to the USA to study American policy development |
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3 March 1964 |
Appointed Parliamentary Representative on the Council of the Australian National University (until 26 January 1966) |
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1965 |
Travels to Indonesia |
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26 January 1966–28 February 1968 |
Minister for the Army |
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10 June–10 July 1966 |
Visits Australian forces in Vietnam during first official visit to South-East Asia |
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Visits Philippines, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia |
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8 February 1967 |
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Gough Whitlam becomes the new leader of the federal Labor Party |
24 July–3 August 1967 |
Visits South Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore |
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22 December 1967 |
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Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming at Cheviot Beach in Victoria |
10 January 1968 |
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John Gorton is sworn in as Prime Minister |
28 February 1968–12 November 1969 |
Minister for Education and Science |
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April 1969 |
Leader, Australian Cultural Mission to Italy |
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August 1969 |
Represents the Australia Government at celebrations for Singapore’s 150th anniversary |
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12 November 1969 |
Appointed Minister for Defence |
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1970s |
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June 1970 |
Attends Five-Power Military Exercise in Singapore |
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November 1970 |
Visits New Zealand and USA |
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8 March 1971 |
Resigns as Minister for Defence |
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10 March 1971 |
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William McMahon becomes leader of the Liberal Party (with John Gorton as his deputy) |
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Deputy Liberal Leader John Gorton is sacked by William McMahon. Malcolm Fraser stands for – but does not win – the position of Deputy Leader |
20 August 1971 |
Re-appointed to Cabinet as Minister for Education and Science (until 5 December 1972) |
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5 December 1972 |
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Australian Labor Party wins government |
December 1972 |
Appointed shadow Minister for Primary Industry |
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3 August 1973 |
Appointed Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations |
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21 March 1975 |
Elected Parliamentary Leader of the Liberal Party |
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September 1975 |
Member, Australian Delegation to Papua New Guinea for Independence Day Celebrations |
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15 October 1975 |
Announces that the Opposition will block supply |
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11 November 1975 |
The Governor-General, John Kerr, dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister |
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13 December 1975 |
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Liberal-National Country Party wins Federal election |
6 January 1976 |
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Family Court of Australia and Federal Court of Australia are established |
mid-January 1976 |
Visits Malaysia for the funeral of Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, and Singapore |
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25 February 1976 |
Appointed to the Privy Council |
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March 1976 |
Attends South Pacific Forum in Rotorua, New Zealand |
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30 April 1976 |
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Parliament passes Social Services Amendment Act 1975 |
15–20 June 1976 |
Visits Japan |
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15–27 July 1976 |
Official visit to Japan and China |
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July–August 1976 |
Official visit to USA, for talks with President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Canada, to attend the Olympic Games in Montreal |
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7–10 October 1976 |
Official visit to Indonesia |
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9 December 1976 |
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Parliament passes Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 |
13 December 1976 |
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Parliament passes Ombudsman Act 1976 |
16 December 1976 |
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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 assented to |
31 December 1976 |
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Sand mining on Fraser Island ceases, following the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry on Fraser Island |
26 January 1977 |
Awarded Order of the Companion of Honour |
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7–11 February 1977 |
Official visit to Papua New Guinea for talks with Prime Minister Michael Somare |
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28 May–23 June 1977 |
Official visits to Italy, UK, Belgium, France, Germany and the USA |
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8–15 June 1977 |
Attends Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London |
Gleneagles Agreement on apartheid in sport |
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First Commonwealth Ombudsman takes office |
29 July 1977 |
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Constitution Alteration (Senate Casual Vacancies) Act 1977 assented to |
19 August 1977 |
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Parliament passes the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Ac 1977 |
23 August 1977 |
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The Federal Government announces that it will allow uranium to be mined and exported |
31 August 1977 |
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Government announces review of migrant services and programs (the ‘Galbally Report’) |
8 December 1977 |
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Sir Zelman Cowan is appointed Australia’s nineteenth Governor-General |
10 December 1977 |
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Liberal-National Country Party wins Federal election |
13–16 February 1978 |
Hosts Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting in Sydney |
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April 1978 |
Official visit to Japan for talks with Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda |
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24–27 April 1978 |
Official visit to the Northern Territory |
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22 June 1978 |
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Parliament assents to Northern Territory (Self Government) Act 1978 |
September 1978 |
Attends South Pacific Forum in Niue |
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October 1978 |
Attends Papua New Guinea Gift Ceremony in Port Moresby |
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25 January–2 February 1979 |
Official visit to India for talks with the Indian Prime Minister, Moraji Desai |
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4 April 1979 |
Announces that the Government will ban whaling within the 200 mile Australian Fishing Zone and prohibit the import of whale products |
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5 April 1979 |
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Proclamation of stage one of Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory |
29 April 1979 |
Launches trial of multicultural television |
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8–12 May 1979 |
Official visit to the Philippines, to address the Fifth Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and Indonesia, for discussions with President Soeharto |
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July 1979 |
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Federal government establishes the Australian Refugee Advisory Council |
26 July–11 August 1979 |
Official visit to Nigeria and Zambia |
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1–8 August 1979 |
Attends Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Lusaka, Zambia |
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1980s |
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26 January 1980 |
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Australian Institute of Sport established |
16 May 1980 |
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Government passes the Aboriginal Development Commission Act 1980 |
6 June 1980 |
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Government passes the Whale Protection Act 1980 |
30 August–10 September 1980 |
Official visit to the USA (Newport and Washington) and India |
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4–9 September 1980 |
Attends Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting in India |
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18 October 1980 |
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Federal election |
24 October 1980 |
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The multicultural television station Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) begins regular transmissions |
4 December 1980 |
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Parliament passes Crimes (Taxation Offences) Act 1980 |
14 April 1981 |
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Australia’s Human Rights Commission is established by the Human Rights Commission Act 1981 |
23–26 June 1981 |
Official visit to Mexico |
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23 June–July 1981 |
Official visit to Washington for talks with President Ronald Reagan and Mexico |
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8 July 1981 |
Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Law by the University of South Carolina |
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Late July 1981 |
Visits London to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer |
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30 September–7 October 1981 |
Hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Melbourne |
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13 January 1982 |
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Sir Ninian Stephen is appointed Australia’s twentieth Governor-General |
9 March 1982 |
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Parliament passes Freedom of Information Act 1982 |
15–25 May 1982 |
Official visits to USA, Japan and Republic of Korea |
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5–9 June 1982 |
Official visit to the Northern Territory |
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1–10 August 1982 |
Official visits to Malaysia, China and New Zealand |
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13 December 1982 |
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Parliament passes Taxation (Unpaid Company Tax) Assessment Act 1982 |
3 February 1983 |
Announces a double dissolution of Parliament and calls a general election |
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6 March 1983 |
Malcolm Fraser concedes defeat and resigns as leader of the Liberal Party |
Federal election |
11 March 1983 |
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Andrew Peacock is elected leader of the Liberal Party |
31 March 1983 |
Resigns from Parliament |
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1983 |
Appointed Distinguished International Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Appointed Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies |
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September 1985 |
Fellow of the Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University |
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October 1985 |
Appointed a member of the international Eminent Persons Group (EPG) seeking to end apartheid in South Africa |
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Chair, United Nations Panel of Eminent Persons on the Activities of Transnational Corporations in South Africa and Namibia |
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28 February–March 1986 |
Visits South Africa |
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1987 |
Founds CARE Australia |
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13 June 1988 |
Made a Companion of the Order of Australia ‘for service to government and politics and to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia’ |
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October 1989 |
Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria |
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1990s |
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1990–1995 |
President of CARE International |
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24 January–3 February 1997 |
Leads a Commonwealth Observer Mission to Pakistan for the national elections on 3 February |
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19 April 1999 |
Appointed the government’s special envoy to Yugoslavia to seek the release of CARE Australia workers, Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace |
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2000s |
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November 2000 |
Awarded the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's 2000 Human Rights Medal |
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29 April 2002 |
Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Technology, Sydney |
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17 September 2002 |
Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Murdoch University, Western Australia |
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20 May 2003 |
Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of New South Wales |
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2006 |
Appointed Professorial Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, The University of Melbourne |
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March 2006 |
Establishes Australians All |
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25 October 2007 |
Presents inaugural professorial lecture at the University of Melbourne |
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