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 A Certain Frame of Mind SIR: Hal Colebatch’s very cross review of Malcolm Fraser’s memoirs (November 2010), in which the reviewer spends half his time excoriating the immoral views of myself (in my article “The Realpolitik of Malcolm Fraser”, May 2010), is characteristic of a certain frame of mind—a frame of mind that’s certain—and unanswerable in terms that would convince him of its limitations. This is because we are at opposite poles on such questions as whether black and white can define the colour of human nature or political systems. Colebatch is a reductionist and evangelist for “the good” in…

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