Phillip Frazer

Phillip Frazer (born 1 May 1946, in Melbourne, Australia) is a writer, editor and publisher. He was a founder of the weekly teen pop newspaper Go-Set in 1966, which was a popular Australian music paper from 1966 to 1974. then negotiated with Rolling Stone owner and publisher Jann Wenner for several pages of that magazine to be included as a supplement. (The Australian Rolling Stone is still publishing as of 2022.) With Frazer as the common thread, The Digger was produced by a frequently changing collective—including Bruce Hanford, Helen Garner, Ponch Hawkes, Colin Talbot, Garrie Hutchinson, Virginia Fraser, Sandra Goldbloom, and Isabelle Rosemberg, plus Hall Greenland, Grant Evans and Michael Zerman in the Sydney office—until December 1975, when it folded under the weight of too little money and too many lawsuits— including a libel suit from Builders Labourers union boss Norm Gallagher, another filed by a senior South Australian police official, and an obscenity case brought by the State of Victoria for Helen Garner's article describing a sex-education class. Frazer left Australia for the United States in July, 1976. with Jim Hightower. The Lowdown, with around 100,000 paying subscribers, is one of the biggest circulation political publications in the US, notable for its criticism of Bill Clinton's, George W. Bush's, Barack Obama's, and Donald Trump's administrations for being beholden to corporations and a corporatist ideology. Frazer published and co-edited the newsletter until August 2013 when he relocated to Australia where he writes for Griffith Review, the Byron Echo, dailyreview.com.au, and his blog at coorabellridge.com. In 2015 he joined a public debate on the role of the US government—through its intelligence and diplomatic agencies — in the overthrow of the Australian Labor Party government in 1975. He updated his 1984 account of that event, published in Mother Jones magazine, with updates from evidence that emerged after the death of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the publication of the novel "Amnesia" by Peter Carey. The updated text is on his blog coorabellridge.com and will be further expanded in his memoir

Personal life Frazer has a son and a daughter from a long-term relationship with New York educator and economist, Dr Cydney Pullman. His partner since 2004 is Australian author, Kate Veitch, who has published two novels Listen (2008) re-titled Without a Backward Glance in the US, and Trust (2009), as well as essays published in The Griffith Review.