Retirement
Gorton retired to Canberra, where he kept out of the political limelight, although he quietly rejoined the Liberal Party. John Hewson credited himself with "returning Gorton to the fold" In March 1983, he congratulated Bob Hawke "for rolling that bastard Fraser". Bettina Gorton died aged about 67 on 2 October 1983, and in 1993 he married Nancy Home. In his old age he was rehabilitated by the Liberals; his 90th birthday party was attended by Prime Minister John Howard. As late as 2002, he told his biographer Ian Hancock that he still could not tolerate being in the same room as Malcolm Fraser. He died at the age of 90 in Sydney in May 2002.
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