FRASER, JOHN MALCOLM (AUSTRALIA)

Approved for Release: 2021/08/25 C06893591 Prime Minister (since December 1975) Addressed as: Mr. Prime Minister Leader of the Liberal Party (LP) since March 1975, Malcolm Fraser became Prime Minister in the LP-National Country Party coalition government formed after the December 1975 general election. As leader of the opposi- tion, he had been named caretaker Prime Minister in November, when Australia's Governor General dismissed Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam after a parliamentary impas6-e...