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No single action has lead
to greater assurance to
Australia that the council's
defense build up will continue
than the 1980 election of
U.S. President Ronald
Reagan, with whom Fraser
shares a common task of
budget-slashing blended
with allowing individual
states to work out their own
authoritative control.
"The state and local
governments are closer to
the recipients of many
services and are better
placed to administer those
programs," he told the
Australian Parliament when
budget cuts were announced
in May of this year.
Fraser has helped keep
unemployment at 5.6 percent
(with 6.7 percent a record for
the country) while unemployment
is fluctuating
about 9.6 percent. His budget
cuts, however, remain the
single-mindedness of his
aims, with his current plan
to save $644 million in the
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350 budget items from pubic
service jobs to the reduction
of tax concessions for industry
and ending free
hospital treatment.
THE CUTS HAVE NOT
been accepted totally by the
public. Both students and
unions have demonstrated
against Fraser's actions, the
former because of vast
funding cuts in higher
education and the latter
because of the possible
elimination of 17,000 public
service jobs to establish the
same functions at the state
and private level.
The 50-year-old prime
minister gives the appearance
of being both shy
and arrogant, which some
think is the result of his
aristocratic background. He
is the son of a wealthy landowner
and grandson of a
senator in the first Federal
Parliament.
Fraser was educated at
Melbourne Grammar School
and Oxford University
where he studied philosophy,
politics and economics.
Memories of a shy,
friendless youth pervaded
through the minds of those
who knew him during those
early years. In 1954, he ran
for a local Western district
seat of Wannon and lost, but,
gained the determination to
win the 1955 Federal
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the Labor Party.
Fraser became Minister
for the Army in 1966 and
) served as Minister for for
Education and Science as
well as Minister for Defense.
He spoke for primary industry
and for labor and
industrial affairs in the early
1970s before becoming
leader of the opposition in
March 1975.
eraser lives in wareem,
Australia, and loves his
farm, sheep, bulls and
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off-set by his wife Tamara's
popularity and good humor.
As many analysts comment,
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regard as cold and distant,
but who vote for him because
conditions could get worse.
Upper class Australians see
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their distance.
IN INTERNATIONAL
relations, Fraser has gained
status as negotiator, standing
firm during CHOGRM
talks in Sydney (1978) and
Lusaka (1979) in order to
emerge a hero in first
gathering Bangladesh, Fiji,
Nauru, New Zealand, India,
Papau, New Guinea,
Singapore, Tonga, Western
Samoa and Sri Lanka to the
ummit in 1978 and
spearheading the settlement
which lead to a return of
legality, easing racial
tensions in Rhodesia.
In 1980, the New Delhi
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Fraser was instrumental in
assuring India that
Singapore and Malaysia's
bad political feeling toward
that country could be
resolved. At the same time,
Fraser and Singapore's Lee
Kuan Yew argued openly
about Australia's protectionist
trade policies, long a
sore point with those who
oppose Fraser's stand that
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inevitable rise of unemployment
coupled with social
unrest.
The Australian prime
minister is also in a state of
paranoia over what he
perceives to be the growing
threat of communism
throught the world, created
by the Soviet Union and put
into physical action by the
invasion of Afghanistan and
threatening of Poland.
Fraser's first action was
joining President Carter in
boycotting the 1980 Moscow
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recently, keeping the Indian
Ocean manned with navy
ships and the air occupied by
U.S. B-52 aircraft surveillance.
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Wellington, New Zealand
June 22 and 23, Australian
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role Australia plays in
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