Gerard Henderson smears Fraser by saying that he has become a hero of the Left whilst others describe him as an enduring liberal.
The reality may be less nuanced, his biographer notes that since the collapse of communism as a political force Liberals had nowhere to go
he was too concerned about Australia’s future to remain silent. He saw a new threat that he believed was in many ways the mirror image of the Communist menace that had first motivated him to enter politics. The new threat was an unreasoning faith in free markets as an organising principle in human affairs.
