Editing Malcolm Fraser (section)

==Personal life==
===Marriage and children===
[[File:Malcolm and Tamie Fraser.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Malcolm and Tamie Fraser at a political event in 1958]]

On 9 December 1956, Fraser married [[Tamie Fraser|Tamara "Tamie" Beggs]], who was almost six years his junior. They had met at a New Year's Eve party, and bonded over similar personal backgrounds and political views. The couple had four children together: Mark (b. 1958), Angela (b. 1960), Hugh (b. 1962), and Phoebe (b. 1964). Tamie frequently assisted her husband in campaigning, and her gregariousness was seen as complementing his more shy and reserved nature. She advised him on most of the important decisions in his career, and in retirement he observed that "if she had been prime minister in 1983, we would have won".<ref>[http://guides.naa.gov.au/malcolm-fraser/chapter5/index.aspx Malcolm Fraser: Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers > Chapter 5: Tamie Fraser] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304054739/http://guides.naa.gov.au/malcolm-fraser/chapter5/index.aspx |date=4 March 2018 }}, National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 3 March 2018.</ref>

He was the former no. 1 ticket holder for the [[Carlton Football Club]] in the [[Australian Football League|AFL]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/451368/vale-malcolm-fraser | title=Vale Malcolm Fraser | date=19 March 2015 }}</ref>

===Views on religion===
Fraser attended Anglican schools, although his parents were Presbyterian.<ref>Williams (2013), p. 172.</ref> In university he was inclined towards atheism, once writing that "the idea that God exists is a nonsense". However, his beliefs became less definite over time and tended towards agnosticism.<ref>Williams (2013), p. 174.</ref> During his political career, he occasionally self-described as Christian, such as in a 1975 interview with ''[[The Catholic Weekly]]''.<ref>Williams (2013), p. 175.</ref> [[Margaret Simons]], the co-author of Fraser's memoirs, thought that he was "not religious, and yet thinks religion is a necessary thing". In a 2010 interview with her, he said: "I would probably like to be less logical and, you know, really able to believe there is a God, whether it is Allah, or the Christian God, or some other – but I think I studied too much philosophy ... you can never know".<ref>Williams (2013), p. 181.</ref>