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Experts, Statistics, Science & Bad Science, Curtis E.A. Karnow

Curtis E.A. Karnow

Articles, books, and other online resources relating to expert testimony with a specific focus on problems with peer review, bad science, and statistics

Malcolm Fraser’S Life And Legacy: Experts Respond, Alex Millmow, Andrew Jakubowicz, Anne-Marie Boxall, David Penington, Hannah Forsyth, Joanna Mendelssohn, Jo Caust, Liz Giuffre, Mark Beeson, Peter Whiteford, Simon Ville, Stephen Leeder, Vincent O-Donnell

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Malcolm Fraser, Liberal prime minister between 1975 and 1983, passed away on Friday morning at the age of 84 after a brief illness. In a statement, Prime Minister Tony Abbott paid tribute to Fraser’s achievements in government, saying he:

… restored economically responsible government while recognising social change.

The Fraser government came to office after the constitutional crisis of 1975 triggered by the sacking of the Whitlam Labor government. In his time in office, Fraser oversaw the acceptance of southeast Asian refugees and the emergence of a multicultural Australia, but environmental battles were a factor in his government’s defeat in …