The Life and Times of Malcolm Fraser

The Life & Times of Malcolm Fraser is a documentary about John Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia from November 11 1975 to March 11 1983. Fraser is central to the controversial events leading up to the 1975 dismissal by Governor-General Sir John Kerr of the messianic Gough Whitlam and his reformist Labor Government. Fraser, the politician, was perceived as arrogant, elitist and unscrupulous - an 'enemy of the people' for having underhandedly brought down the first Labor Government in twenty-three years. Today public perception of Malcolm Fraser is very different - past enemies embrace his humility, and 'radical' stand on reconciliation, asylum seekers and globalisation. Fraser has become 'a man of the people', a champion of the disenfranchised. A popular belief is that Fraser has mellowed with time, re-invented himself as a humanist, and redeemed himself of his past wrongs.