Úc châu tiễn đưa cựu Thủ tướng Malcom Fraser
27-3-2015
Sáng nay, 27-03-2015, Quốc tang tiễn đưa cựu Thủ tướng Malcome Fraser vị ân nhân đã nhận lãnh 56 ngàn Thuyền nhân Việt Nam sau 1975 đã 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 . Dưới đây là tường trình và ghi nhận của báo The Canberra Times.
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Vietnamese community support
Members of Australia's Vietnamese community have turned out to offer their condolences.
About 56,000 Vietnamese people came to Australia as refugees during Fraser's time in government.
Outside the church, representative Phong Nguyen said, "we are here today because of Malcolm Fraser".
"He means a lot to our community." The other Malcolm paused to talk to the group on his way in.
Malcolm Turnball meets members of the Vietnamese community. Photo: Jason South Photo: Jason South
Flowers for Fraser on Friday. Photo: Joe Armao Photo: Joe Armao
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/the-pulse-live/malcolm-fraser-funeral-politics-live-20150327-1m8ze9.html
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Ex prime minister Malcolm Fraser farewelled in state funeral March 27, 2015
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”.
Tamie Fraser (centre), widow of Malcolm Fraser looks on as the hearse leaves carrying his coffin at Scots Church. Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Malcolm Fraser's coffin is carried out during his state funeral in Melbourne. Source: Supplied
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.
A woman holds the funeral program at Scots Church during the State Funeral for Malcolm Fraser. Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
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.”
Mourners leave carrying the coffin of former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser from Scots Church in Melbourne. Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
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.
Former PM John Howard arrives with Sir John Carrick Source: News Corp Australia
“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.”
Foreign minister Julie Bishop arrives at the State funeral of former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser at Scots' church in Melbourne. Source: Supplied
The volume of public mourners spread across the corner of Russell and Collins streets to St Michael’s Uniting Church where screens telecast the service and police shut down traffic.
Australia’s Vietnamese community were among those to turn out to farewell Mr Fraser.
General secretary of the Vietnamese community in Victoria Phong Nguyen said it was like losing their own parent.
“We call him our father and our saviour,” Mr Nguyen said on Friday.
“He means everything to us but mostly freedom for saving us from the refugee camp. It’s a very deep loss for our community.”
Members of the Vietnamese community hold signs aloft outside of Scots Church during the state funeral for Malcolm Fraser. Picture: Josie Hayden Source: News Corp Australia
Mr Nguyen met Mr Fraser several times and was to have an appointment with the former prime minister this week.
“His ongoing support of the community was unwavering,” Mr Nguyen said.
Mr Fraser’s actions touched many people, including Richard Tanter, a politics professor at University of Melbourne who worked with him.
“It seemed to me in the last half of his life he worked in an extraordinary way for the Australians we don’t want to look at most of the time,” Professor Tanter said.
Winning a landslide election and a historic 55-seat majority a month after coming to office, Mr Fraser was to remain prime minister until 1983.
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard arrives at the funeral Source: News Corp Australia
And although painted as an arch-conservative, the enigmatic Fraser rolled out a moderate reform program during his time in office — save for his ‘Razor Gang’ bureaucracy cuts — and surprised many within his own party as a staunch supporter of thousands of Vietnamese refugees fleeing communism.
It was an egalitarian side to Mr Fraser that defined his life after politics, where he remained passionately engaged in humanitarian causes, environmental and refugee issues and a supporter of softening Australia’s automatic alliance with the US in favour of a stronger embrace of China and the Asian region.
The Choir of Scots’ Church sang the benediction, The Lord Bless You and Keep You, a piper played to mark the end of the service and Mr Fraser’s casket was taken by six pall bearers passed solemn mourners.
http://www.news.com.au/national/ex-prime-minister-malcolm-fraser-farewelled-in-state-funeral/story-fncynjr2-1227280853514
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