12 Facts About Phillip Frazer

Phillip Frazer was a founder of the weekly teen pop newspaper Go-Set in 1966, which was a popular Australian music paper from 1966 to 1974.

Phillip Frazer published the more explicitly counterculture magazines Revolution, High Times and The Digger.

Phillip Frazer launched the Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine, first as a supplement in Revolution in 1970, then as a full-fledged magazine in 1972.

From 1976 to 2011, Frazer lived in the United States, where he launched and edited numerous political publications, most notably The Hightower Lowdown and Multinational Monitor.

Phillip Frazer was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1946 and graduated Monash University with an arts degree majoring in politics.

Phillip Frazer co-edited the student newspaper Lot's Wife in 1965 with future parliamentarian Peter Steedman.

In 1970, Phillip Frazer used Go-Set's facilities to launch a counter-cultural monthly named Revolution, then negotiated with Rolling Stone owner and publisher Jann Wenner for several pages of that magazine to be included as a supplement.

Phillip Frazer folded Revolution into a new magazine he called High Times in August 1971, then left Go-Set when, in February 1972, the paper's printer took a controlling interest.

Phillip Frazer left Australia for the United States in July, 1976.

Phillip 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.

Phillip Frazer 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.

Phillip Frazer has a son and a daughter from a long-term relationship with New York educator and economist, Dr Cydney Pullman.