The dwindling number of Australians who still hold the position Prime Minister in some kind of regard lamented how they only seem to catch up with each other at funerals as they bid farewell to former PM Malcolm Fraser in Melbourne.
“We used to see each other all the time. At ceremonies handing land back to its traditional owners, at openings of new and exciting television stations, university graduations that we didn’t have to pay an arm and a leg for… all sorts of occasions,” said a wistful Herbert Milotin, who’d taken the train down from Echuca for the event. “I remember when we got together in the seventies to help celebrate the introduction of Medicare. There were thousands of us, young kids and all.”
“I don’t get out much these days with my bad leg and arthritis”, said Kaye Bexisbetter of Orange. “There’s always a few less familiar faces every year. It seems like only yesterday we got together for Gough’s passing on. I wonder if there’ll be any of us left at all when Hawkie shuffles off the coil.”
The group planned to have a sink a few beers and reminisce about the creation of the Australian Council of the Arts and the floating of the dollar before catching an early train home.
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