Allan Duncan Fraser CMG (18 September 1902 – 12 December 1977) was an Australian politician and journalist. Fraser was in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton and brought up in Tasmania. He left State High School, Hobart at 17 to become a journalist on the Hobart Mercury. He worked for the Argus in Melbourne from 1922 to 1929 when he moved to Canberra to work for the Sydney Sun. He married Eda Kathleen Bourke in 1931.

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  • Allan Duncan Fraser CMG (18 September 1902 – 12 December 1977) was an Australian politician and journalist. Fraser was in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton and brought up in Tasmania. He left State High School, Hobart at 17 to become a journalist on the Hobart Mercury. He worked for the Argus in Melbourne from 1922 to 1929 when he moved to Canberra to work for the Sydney Sun. He married Eda Kathleen Bourke in 1931. In 1933, he worked for the The Times in London, before returning to Australia to work for the Sun and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, but was sacked in 1938. Bob Heffron, the leader of the Industrial Labor Party, which had broken from the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party led by Jack Lang, appointed him as his secretary. He acted as Heffron's media officer and helped formulate the strategy that overcame Lang's control of the branch. He subsequently worked as news editor on the Daily News and then returned to the Canberra parliamentary press gallery in 1940 as political correspondent for Ezra Norton's Truth and from 1941 Norton's new Daily Mirror. Fraser was active in the Australian Journalists Association and had been secretary, treasurer and president of its Victorian district between 1926 and 1929 and treasurer of the New South Wales district from 1937 to 1938. Between 1941 and 1944 he was president of the Canberra sub-district of the AJA.
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  • Jim Fraser ''(brother)''
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  • Australian politician and journalist
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  • Eda Kathleen Bourke
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  • 2 November 1972
  • 26 November 1966
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  • Allan Duncan Fraser CMG (18 September 1902 – 12 December 1977) was an Australian politician and journalist. Fraser was in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton and brought up in Tasmania. He left State High School, Hobart at 17 to become a journalist on the Hobart Mercury. He worked for the Argus in Melbourne from 1922 to 1929 when he moved to Canberra to work for the Sydney Sun. He married Eda Kathleen Bourke in 1931.
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