John Stanton: Malcolm Fraser

Quotes 

• Gough Whitlam : Congratulations, Malcolm. I look forward to some epic clashes in the House.

  Malcolm Fraser : Thank you. I look forward to meeting you... and beating you.

• Malcolm Fraser : I want to get talk about elections out of the air, so the government can get on with the job of governing. I generally believe that if a government is elected to power, in the Lower House, and has the numbers, and can maintain the numbers in the Lower House, then it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the 3 year term, unless quite extraordinary events intervene.

• Malcolm Fraser : If we do make up our minds at some stage that... the government is so reprehensible that, uh, an opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then, uh, I would like to find a situation in which we made that decision and, uh... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning, finding the decision had been made, and had been caught with his pants well and truly down.

  Gough Whitlam : I am beginning to understand now why his colleagues call him the Prefect.