The
episode
in which Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was
found not guilty of illegally fishing in
the Northern Territory was previously run in this blog . Recently we
obtained the nibbled copy of
Fur & Feather Fly-Tying for
Trout , by Peter Leuver ,with a foreword by Malcolm Fraser . In it
Fraser stated his trout fishing career began in the early 1950s after a
particularly rough week in parliament .
Tamie, he wrote, who at first brought a book to read when she accompanied him on fishing safaris , eventually became a
keen fly
fisher after a trip to Alaska . At the state
funeral for Fraser , Peter Nixon spoke
of their long friendship and fishing trips , mentioned in the superb ABC series on the National Party .
In the many comments made after
the death of Malcolm Fraser , one was a short
letter to the editor of The
Australian from former Northern Territory Chief Minister, Marshall Perron , now residing in Buderim , Queensland, pointing out that Fraser
had joined more than 100 eminent people as a
public ambassador for dying with dignity law reform . Perron wrote that Fraser, who had granted the NT self government , would have been
appalled when PM John Howard and Kevin
Andrews, the latter now Defence Minister, recently the
subject of a dire , painful threat upon
his person by the NT Legislative Assembly Speaker and
experienced python catcher , Kezia Purick ,
overturned the Territory’s euthanasia
legislation in 1997. Perron hoped Fraser’s death had
been dignified.
