Malcolm Fraser Collection

The Malcolm Fraser Collection consists of around one hundred linear metres of family and personal records relating to the former Prime Minister of Australia, the Rt Hon. Malcolm Fraser. The collection was transferred to the University of Melbourne Archives from the National Archives of Australia from 2004.

The collection includes: photographs, including photographs taken by Malcolm Fraser's father, Neville Fraser, and photographs of official overseas and domestic visits by Mr Fraser while Prime Minister of Australia - there are also photographs taken by Mr Fraser himself while on these visits; some papers associated with Sir Simon Fraser, Mr Fraser's grandfather - Simon Fraser was a member of the Victorian Upper House (the Legislative Council) and a participant in most of the Federation conferences which preceded Australian Federation, he was a foundation Senator for Victoria until 1913; papers of Mr Fraser's father, Neville Fraser, including his World War I diaries; speeches, from Mr Fraser's 1956 preselection speech until the present day; correspondence from individuals or interest groups associated with his constituency, the electorate of Wannon in Victoria's Western District; records relating to Mr Fraser's role as a founding member of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; and press releases, cuttings, board papers and other records from CARE Australia, Australia's largest non-political and non-religious overseas aid organisation, founded by Malcolm Fraser in 1987.