BACK in November 2018 the Shire of Southern Grampians supported a request to recognise the contribution former prime minister Malcolm Fraser had made to Australia and our electorate of Wannon by erecting a life-size bust of  him in the Hamilton Botanical Gardens.

Mr Fraser grew up on Nareen Station, north of Coleraine, and represented Wannon for 28 years, while also serving as Prime Minister between 1975 and 1983.