Editing Arthur Fadden (section)

==Final years==
After leaving parliament, Fadden pursued business interests across a wide range of industries. He visited Japan twice in 1959, and was appointed as the representative of a Japanese company hoping to acquire a licence to export iron ore from Western Australia. The deal fell through, which he attributed to political interference.{{sfn|Arklay|2010|pp=259, 262}} Fadden was chairman of Centenary Estates Limited, which built the housing development that became known as the [[Centenary Suburbs]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hb9rBwAAQBAJ|page=161|title=Meanjin to Brisvegas: Snapshots of Brisbane's Journey from Colonial Backwater to New World City|first=John|last=Tilston|year=2014|publisher=Lulu|isbn=9781291996562}}</ref> He took up several company directorships, including with the real estate firm [[LJ Hooker|Hooker Finance]] and the ice-cream manufacturer Toppa. He also worked as a consultant for a sugar mill in [[Tully, Queensland]], and invested in an iron ore deposit at [[Mourilyan, Queensland]]. In 1960, he was commissioned by the state government to produce a report into the viability of [[Central Queensland]] ports.{{sfn|Arklay|2010|p=266}}

In 1969, Fadden published a memoir titled ''They Called Me Artie''. Reviewing the book for ''[[The Canberra Times]]'', [[Don Aitkin]] observed that Fadden had "the reputation of a political buffoon, a man of earthy wit and hail-fellow-well-metness who survived in politics because he knew more and better stories than the next man [...] his autobiography does little to destroy that picture".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131684986|first=Don|last=Aitkin|author-link=Don Aitkin|date=31 January 1970|newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]]|title=Still an abundance of anecdotes}}</ref> Shortly before his death in 1973 he also published a nine-page account of his prime ministership in ''[[Australian Outlook]]'', titled "Forty days and forty nights".{{sfn|Fadden|1973|pp=3-11}}

Fadden suffered from ill health during his retirement, including a bout of hepatitis and a vision defect that left him blind in one eye and required an operation to correct.{{sfn|Arklay|2010|p=266}} He died of leukaemia on 21 April 1973, aged 79, at [[St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital]] in Brisbane. A [[state funeral]] was held at the Toowong Presbyterian Church on 27 April, followed by cremation at [[Mt Thompson Crematorium]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136971869|title=Funeral of Sir Arthur Fadden|newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]]|date=24 April 1973}}</ref><ref name=heaven>[http://www.heavenaddress.com/restingplace/arthur-william-fadden/381477 Arthur William Fadden (1895 - 1973)] &mdash; Heaven Address. Retrieved 8 May 2016.</ref>