Úc châu tiễn đưa cựu Thủ tướng Malcom Fraser
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[FONT=Arial]Sáng nay, 27-03-2015, Quốc tang tiễn đưa cựu Thủ tướng Malcome Fraser vị ân nhân đă nhận lănh 56 ngàn Thuyền nhân Việt Nam sau 1975 đă trốn chạy CS lấn chiếm miền Nam.
Cộng Đồng Người Việt Tụ Do Úc Châu - Victoria tham dự tang lễ để tiễn đưa vị ân nhân đến nơi an nghỉ cuối cùng.
CĐNVTD-Victoria sẽ tưởng niệm cựu Thử tướng Fraser trước Quốc hội Victoria chiều nay và CĐNVTD-NSW sẽ tưởng niệm cựu Thử tướng vào chiều Chủ Nhật tuần nay .
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FORMER prime minister Malcolm Fraser has been remembered as a unique and great Australian who was always sure to succeed in politics, at his state funeral in Melbourne.
Political leaders from across the divide, dignitaries and hundreds of public mourners gathered to farewell the former Liberal prime minister.
Widow Tamie Fraser and the couple’s four children were welcomed to the front pews of a packed Scots’ Church where a casket adorned with an Australian flag sat at the foot of the altar.
Former National Party member and Fraser government minister Peter Nixon delivered the main eulogy describing Mr Fraser as a “unique and great Australian”.
Former prime ministers John Howard, Paul Keating and Julia Gillard, Premier Daniel Andrews and former state leaders as well as all living former governors general, apart from Bill Hayden, who is unwell, were among those paying respects at the Presbyterian church where Sir Robert Menzies was honoured at his death in 1978.
Police say about 2000 people were outside the church or in St Michael’s opposite watching the telecast service.
The service opened with a chorale prelude and the singing of the national anthem.
Mr Fraser, who died last Friday aged 84, was remembered for his dedication of service to the nation and his passionate post-political life of advocacy for universal rights, indigenous welfare and humanitarianism.
Mr Nixon said his long-time colleague was a dedicated and fearless politician.
Coming up against then Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975 — “a big man in every way” — including spending, Mr Fraser as new opposition leader set up a “classic big man dual” with Whitlam, with both believing they had right on their side, Mr Nixon said.
The fact that Gough and Malcolm, “leaders of the toughest political contest in the nation’s history,” later became friends was a testament to their character, he said.
Much comment had been made of Mr Fraser in the past week, he said.
“One thing is certain, the country has lost a unique and great Australian.”
Hugh Fraser said his father was a “truly global man” who loved Australia.
“He was not merely one of its sons but one of its most fervent custodians,” he said, adding his father was still talking passionately about national affairs last week.
Talking of the private side of Mr Fraser, Rachael said her grandfather was a “joker at heart” who would eat out of an ice cream container at the table and listed The Bodyguard as his favourite film.
She said several years ago, intrigued by his grandchildren always checking their phones, Mr Fraser took to new technology apace, gathered 20,000 twitter followers in no time and always had his iPad at the ready to post thoughts and comments.
“It is clear grandad was most relaxed when with the family,” she said.
Mr Fraser’s daughter Phoebe Wynne-Pope read a quote by Theodore Roosevelt to sum up the way she saw her dad.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better,” she read.
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
“If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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