Yup!
Rhrosty.

The author throws down the gauntlet on one of the great intellectual endeavours of our Age. In his immortal words:

"Our challenge is not to say goodbye; it is to be more magnanimous in his death than we were in his life and to acknowledge this giant, who was surely one of us."

To which I respond:

I'm bigger in some places to.

Jesus...give us a break....some people around and about, actually disliked this man!

Give it a break Craig.

Most visionaries have it wrong, & like Fraser are too pig headed, or thick to see this, even when good people point it out.

Rather than praise him, try telling the truth. This man did more harm to more people than almost any other Australian I can think of.

If you want to praise him, please do it quietly, so as not to remind us what a disaster he was for so many.

I share an admiration for Fraser, the more so for his effort in writing a book in his final years attempting to shake an apathetic nation out of its opinionated self satisfaction.
Anyone read Dangerous Allies?

Has, so many broad sweeping statements, and said with such authority!

So, lets flesh out some of those statements, if you're actually able!

Which visionaries, and where were they wrong!?

Albert Einstein, Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers; or should we ape you and just apply convenient labels; and call them the Wrong brothers?

And while you're at it, where was Malcolm so wrong?

Conservative contractionary policies perhaps; when what we needed was a Leader with genuine nation building vision and the wit to bring them forward to fruition as our reality.

Much in the manner of a genuine and nation building visionary, like Socialist Lee Kwan Yu, who we honored around the same time?

Who and to be fair, has some real nation building runs on the board!

Perhaps you'd care to compare us and them, then and now?

And include size and resources, if you're able; then and now!

Always providing you're interested in airing the facts, as opposed to endless vitriol, ultra conservative hogwash, hot air and humbug!?
Rhrosty.