Malcolm Fraser dies

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Real end of an era stuff today with Malcolm Fraser following Gough Whitlam to the grave.

Loon ponders usually consider Malcolm Fraser to have run a weak Liberal government but he was progressive, staunchly anti-communist in the context of the Cold War and since retirement an effective conscience for a party that has lost its way in the wilderness of the far Right.

He will be missed.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.