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Fraser Government

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The Fraser Government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. [1]

80 relations: Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Andrew Peacock, Apartheid, Arncliffe, New South Wales, Australian Democrats, Australian federal election, 1974, Australian federal election, 1975, Australian federal election, 1977, Australian federal election, 1980, Australian federal election, 1983, Australian House of Representatives, Australian Labor Party, Australian Senate, Beirut, Bill Hayden, Billy Snedden, Bob Hawke, Clunies-Ross family, Coalition (Australia), Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Commonwealth of Nations, Daily Mail, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Don Chipp, Double dissolution, Doug Anthony, Early 1980s recession, Economic rationalism, Economy of Australia, Environmental movement in Australia, European Economic Community, First Fraser Ministry, Fourth Fraser Ministry, Franklin Dam controversy, Free trade, Freedom of information, Gleneagles Agreement, Governor-General of Australia, Hawke Government, Jim Cairns, John Howard, John Kerr (governor-general), Lakemba, New South Wales, Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, Liberal Party of Australia, Loan Council, Loans affair, Majority government, ..., Malcolm Fraser, Mao Zedong, Michael MacKellar, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Minority government, National Party of Australia, Neville Bonner, Norfolk Island, Norfolk Island Act 1979, Northern Territory, Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978, Parliament of Australia, Peter Dutton, Phillip Lynch, Protectionism, Rex Connor, Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe, Second Fraser Ministry, Shia Islam, Social liberalism, Special Broadcasting Service, Sunni Islam, The Guardian, Third Fraser Ministry, Tony Street, Vietnam War, White Australia policy, Whitlam Government, 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Expand index (30 more) »

Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976

The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act provides the basis upon which Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory can claim rights to land based on traditional occupation.

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Administrative Appeals Tribunal

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is an Australian tribunal that conducts independent merits review of administrative decisions made under Commonwealth laws of the Australian Government.

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Andrew Peacock

Andrew Sharp Peacock AC GCL (born 13 February 1939) is a former Australian politician and diplomat.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Arncliffe, New South Wales

Arncliffe is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Australian Democrats

The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party in existence since 1977.

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Australian federal election, 1974

Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 May 1974.

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Australian federal election, 1975

Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1975.

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Australian federal election, 1977

Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1977.

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Australian federal election, 1980

Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 October 1980.

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Australian federal election, 1983

Federal elections were held in Australia on 5 March 1983.

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Australian House of Representatives

The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two Houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian Senate

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

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Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Bill Hayden

William George Hayden (born 23 January 1933) is a former Australian politician who served as the 21st Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1989 to 1996.

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Billy Snedden

Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975.

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Bob Hawke

Robert James Lee Hawke, (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian politician who was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1983 to 1991.

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Clunies-Ross family

The Clunies-Ross family were the original settlers of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a small archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

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Coalition (Australia)

The Coalition (or Liberal–National Coalition) is an alliance of centre-right political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics.

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM; or) is a biennial summit meeting of the heads of government from all Commonwealth nations.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

The Deputy Prime Minister of Australia is the second-most senior officer in the Government of Australia.

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Don Chipp

Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 192528 August 2006) was an Australian politician who was the first leader of the Australian Democrats.

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Double dissolution

A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks in the bicameral Parliament of Australia between the House of Representatives (lower house) and the Senate (upper house).

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Doug Anthony

John Douglas Anthony, (born 31 December 1929) is a former Australian politician.

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Early 1980s recession

The early 1980s recession was a severe global economic recession that affected much of the developed world in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Economic rationalism

Economic rationalism is an Australian term often used in the discussion of macroeconomic policy, applicable to the economic policy of many governments around the world, in particular during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Economy of Australia

The economy of Australia is one of the largest mixed-market economies in the world, with a GDP of A$1.69 trillion as of 2017.

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Environmental movement in Australia

Beginning as a conservation movement, the environmental movement in Australia was the first in the world to become a political movement.

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European Economic Community

The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states.

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First Fraser Ministry

The First Fraser Ministry was the 51st Australian Commonwealth ministry, and held office from 11 November 1975 to 22 December 1975.

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Fourth Fraser Ministry

The Fourth Fraser Ministry was the forty-seventh Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 3 November 1980 to 7 May 1982.

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Franklin Dam controversy

The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia, that was never constructed.

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Free trade

Free trade is a free market policy followed by some international markets in which countries' governments do not restrict imports from, or exports to, other countries.

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Freedom of information

Freedom of information is an extension of freedom of speech, a fundamental human right recognized in international law, which is today understood more generally as freedom of expression in any medium, be it orally, in writing, print, through the Internet or through art forms.

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Gleneagles Agreement

In the Gleneagles Agreement, in 1977, Commonwealth Presidents and Prime Ministers agreed, as part of their support for the international campaign against apartheid, to discourage contact and competition between their sportsmen and sporting organisations, teams or individuals from South Africa.

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Governor-General of Australia

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative of the Australian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II.

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Hawke Government

The Hawke Government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke of the Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1991.

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Jim Cairns

James Ford Cairns (4 October 191412 October 2003), Australian politician, was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government.

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John Howard

John Winston Howard, (born 26 July 1939) is a former Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2007.

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John Kerr (governor-general)

Sir John Robert Kerr, (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) was the 18th Governor-General of Australia.

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Lakemba, New South Wales

Lakemba is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography

Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography is an autobiography of John Howard, the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, who served between 1996 and 2007.

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Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is a major centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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Loan Council

The Loan Council is an Australian Commonwealth-State ministerial council that coordinates public sector borrowing,Budget office: comprising the Commonwealth of Australia and the states and self-governing territories, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory.

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Loans affair

The Loans affair, also called the Khemlani affair, was a political scandal involving the Whitlam Government of Australia in 1975, in which it was accused of attempting to unconstitutionally borrow money from Middle Eastern countries through the agency of Pakistani banker Tirath Khemlani, bypassing standard procedures of the Australian Treasury.

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Majority government

A majority government is a government formed by a governing party that has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system.

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Malcolm Fraser

John Malcolm Fraser (21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1975 to 1983 as leader of the Liberal Party.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Michael MacKellar

Michael John Randal MacKellar (27 October 1938 – 9 May 2015) was an Australian politician, the Liberal Member for Warringah from 1969 until 1994.

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Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection is a ministerial post of the Australian Government.

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Minority government

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

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National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia (also known as The Nationals or simply, The Nats) is an Australian political party.

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Neville Bonner

Fred Thomas Bonner AO (28 March 19225 February 1999) was an Australian politician, and the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia.

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Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, directly east of mainland Australia's Evans Head, and about from Lord Howe Island.

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Norfolk Island Act 1979

The Norfolk Island Act 1979 was an Act of the Parliament of Australia.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978

The Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that granted self-government to the Northern Territory.

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Parliament of Australia

The Parliament of Australia (officially the Federal Parliament; also known as the Commonwealth Parliament or just Parliament) is the legislative branch of the government of Australia.

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Peter Dutton

Peter Craig Dutton (born 18 November 1970)Parliament of Australia (2007),.

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Phillip Lynch

Sir Phillip Reginald Lynch KCMG (27 July 1933 – 19 June 1984) was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1982.

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Protectionism

Protectionism is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Rex Connor

Reginald Francis Xavier "Rex" Connor (26 January 190722 August 1977) was Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1963 to his death, representing the Labor Party.

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Rhodesia

Rhodesia was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe.

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Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born 21 February 1924) is a former Zimbabwean politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.

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Second Fraser Ministry

The Second Fraser Ministry was the fifty-second Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 22 December 1975 to 20 December 1977.

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Shia Islam

Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.

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Social liberalism

Social liberalism (also known as modern liberalism or egalitarian liberalism) is a political ideology and a variety of liberalism that endorses a market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights while also believing that the legitimate role of the government includes addressing economic and social issues such as poverty, health care and education.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Third Fraser Ministry

The Third Fraser Ministry was the fifty-third Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 20 December 1977 to 3 November 1980.

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Tony Street

Anthony "Tony" Austin Street (born 8 February 1926) is a former Australian federal politician who served as Foreign Minister in the Fourth Fraser Ministry between 1980 and 1983, representing the Corangamite division in Victoria.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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White Australia policy

The term White Australia policy comprises various historical policies that effectively barred people of non-European descent from emigrating into Australia.

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Whitlam Government

The Whitlam Government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

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1975 Australian constitutional crisis

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Government

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