I am honoured to be asked to make this speech. During the tur-bulent years of the 1970s, few people would have believed that Malcolm Fraser would be delivering a Gough Whitlam Oration. Politics is a hard business. The opposition of one party to another can become toxic. We have had this demonstrated to us all too often in recent years. But it does not always have to be this way. By any standards Gough Whitlam…
I will speak a little of Australia's history since the end of the Second World War to the present and how I see the possibilities for the future. With the economic rise of China, and the United States' preoccupation with the Western Pacific, Australia needs to be conspicuously independent and constructive.
