A British General of the Raj, told that suttee was an Indian custom, replied: ‘We have a custom too. When men burn women alive, we hang them.’ It was a set-back for multiculturalism. Really bad ideas that become government policy with bipartisan support seldom have a single father. But Australian multiculturalism, like the grandiose Parliament House and the PC-infiltrated Australian Defence Force Academy, owes a lot to Malcolm Fraser.