Fraser, Malcolm ( 21 May 1930 - )
Date 2006/2/26 9:38:41 | Topic: Australian
|  John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH
(born 21 May 1930) is an Australian politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, who 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.
In retirement Fraser served with distinction as Chairman of the United Nations Panel of Eminent Persons on the Role of Transnational Corporations in South Africa 1985, as Co-Chairman of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa in 1985-86, and as Chairman of the UN Secretary-General's Expert Group on African Commodity Issues in 1989-90. Fraser became president of the foreign aid group Care International in 1991, and worked with a number of other charitable organisations.
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