article_snippet: Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives at the service today in what was a busy day for the nation's leader, having held a press conference in Tasmania earlier on Friday .
article_snippet: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is deputy leader of the party former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser once led .
article_snippet: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews arrives at Scot's College to pay Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews respects to Former prime minister John Howard (right) .
article_snippet: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull (left) and
article_snippet: Among the hundreds of mourners were Prime Minister Tony Abbott and former leaders Howard, Keating and Gillard .
article_snippet: Hundreds of mourners crowded Scot's Church in Melbourne's CBD to commemorate the life of Australia's 22nd prime minister, who ran the country from his controversial ascension in 1975 until 1983 .
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  Among the hundreds of mourners were Prime Minister Tony Abbott and former leaders Howard, Keating and Gillard .
  