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David Lowe on the 75th Anniversary of the Colombo Plan: "Opened a lot of Australian eyes"
Santamaria and the DLP | Samuel Chamberlain
Colin Milner on Sir Robert Garran: "Continuously close to the centre of the action"
How to Create a Middle-Class Economy | Abby Smith
The Philosophy of Aspiration, The Australian Dream | Priscilla Spalding
Andrew Kemp & Zachary Gorman on the 1949 Election: "There was an optimism, a confidence, about the Liberal pitch"
Enemy of my enemy? Australia and the Sino-Soviet split | Jesse Seeberg-Gordon
Overprivileged: An Episode of High Political Drama | Patrick Irwin
Summer Series 2024-5 Part 7: Charles Richardson, Stephen Loosley & Frank Bongiorno
The Arts’ Last Advocate: Menzies and the Cause of Liberal Education | Jacob Carson
Freedom, Empire, and the ‘Ordinary Australian’ | Josh Woodward
Popular Criticism of Menzies’ War Aims | Aaron Marston-Pattison
Remembering the Anglo-Australian Relationship of the 20th Century | Scarlett Wakelin
Menzies the Student, Menzies the Statesman | Nick Warren
Summer Series 2024-5 Part 6: Will Stoltz, Sean Jacobs, David Furse-Roberts & Christopher Beer
Maya Khurana Redefines Australian Middle Class Identity
Orlando Throsby on Australia and NZ | Two Sides of the Same Sea
Georgia Lowden on Policy Settings and Housing Booms | Lessons from Menzies
Summer Series 2024-5 Part 5: Anne Henderson, Jennifer Clark, James Waghorne, Gwilym Croucher & Lyndon Megarrity
Summer Series 2024-5 Part 4: Damien Freeman, Dean Smith, Josh Woodward & Michael de Percy
Summer Series 2024-5 Part 3: Andrew Carr, Tom Lewis & Lucas McLennan
Summer Series 2024-5 Part 2: Jim Walter, John Hawkins & Nicholas Brown
Summer Series 2024-5 Part 1: Geoffrey Blainey, David Lee & Selwyn Cornish
Emma McEwin on Sir Douglas Mawson | “Always curious, always inquiring”
Malcolm Mackerras AO on Ranking Australia’s PMs | “Good for a parlour game”
Francesco Ricatti on Italian Migration | “Your own identity... is evolving”
Afternoon Light Live: David Kemp & Zachary Gorman on the Liberal Party's 80th Anniversary | “One wet cloudy day in Canberra"
Nigel Biggar on the Moral Complexities of the British Empire | "Let's go conquer the world"
Sherry Sufi on the Origins of the Western Australian Liberal Party | "Very Unique Mindset"
Lyndon Megarrity on the Origins of the Queensland LNP | "Doesn't want to play ball"
Zachary Gorman on the Origins of the New South Wales Liberal Party | "NSW's history is Australia's history"
Terry Barnes on the Origins of the Liberal-Nationals Coalition | "Relating to its base"
Stephen Wilks on the Origins of the Victorian Liberal Party | “The freedom to be an individual”
Damien Freeman on the Death of Settlement Politics | “A Degree of Ambiguity”
Stephen Dando-Collins on the Photographs that Defied Censorship to Define World War II | “Ingrained in Our Memories”
Andrew Kemp on the Imperative & Logistics of Party Organisation | "The Spirit of 49"
Judge Amul Thapar on Originalist Constitutional Interpretation | “A contract between the American people and the government”
Stefan Petrow on the origins of the Tasmanian Liberal Party | “An anti-socialist paradise”
Baden Teague on South Australia’s Liberal & Country League | “A well thought out fusion of liberals & conservatives"
Anne Henderson on Enid Lyons, May Couchman, & the Female Liberal Founders | “You’ve got to put your hand up”
David Kemp on forming a party with an explicitly liberal philosophy | “A very idealistic and practical effort”
Gosia Klatt on Australia’s surprising role representing Poland during WW2 | “Escaped the notice of history”
Tony Brady on the Empire Air Training Scheme | “Never will have anything on that scale again”
Ann Howard on the evacuation of Australian children during WW2 | “A Theatre of War”
Scott Prasser on the role of Parliamentary Oppositions | “The Government in Waiting”
Denis Byrne on the China-Australia Migration Corridor | “A two-way flow”
Peter Londey on the history of Australian Peacekeeping | “The minimum possible level of violence”
Brad Underhill on the ‘Territory’ of Papua New Guinea | “These are Australian Citizens”
Jeff Kildea on Sectarianism and the Irish in Australia | “Exclusiveness and Exclusion”
Chris Monnox on How Compulsory Voting Changed Our Elections | “Persuasion very much a secondary concern”
Teesta Prakash on Australia-India Relations | "There was a war of words between Nehru and Menzies"
Katharine Betts on Population & Social Cohesion | "Almost all of us, either we or our grandparents, came from elsewhere"
Tania Cammarano on Italian Food in Australia | "Cuisine absorbs foreign influence"
Amanda Laugesen on the Australian Accent | "Language goes a long way to being part of our national identity"
Senator James Paterson on National Unity & Sovereignty | "We nearly had a very serious domestic crisis"
Paul Tilley on the History of Australian Tax Reform | "Broaden the base and lower the rates"
Brian O'Malley on James 'King O'Malley' Malley | Larrikin, Maverick, and "Accused Murderer"
Thea Gardiner, ‘Her main duty in life was to give back’ The Mab Grimwade Story
Saul Eslake, ‘A distinctive part of life in Australia’ The Declining Dream of Homeownership
David W. Cameron, ‘We punched well above our weight’ Australians in the Battle of Kapyong, Korea
Peter Brune, ‘Totally Bipartisan’ How post-war immigration transformed Australia
Stephen Dando-Collins, ‘He was Unrelenting’ The Astonishing Life of Sir Henry Parkes
Lauren Samuelsson, ‘We don’t have a cuisine, but we do have a food culture’ The history of what Aussies eat
Peter Job, ‘Shrewdly Compromised’ Australia’s Brutal Sell-out of East Timor
Jennifer Clark, ‘There’s Sputnik, what’s your answer?’ Revolutionising Australian science education
Ross McMullin, ‘Yes Mr. Watson’ Our First Labor PM
William Coleman, ‘Australia’s Sham Federation’ The flawed process which produced our Commonwealth
Frank Bongiorno, ‘A vision of the good society’ The Dreamers & Schemers of Australian political history
Ryan Cropp, ‘The world that he was renouncing’ Donald Horne & the Lucky Country
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 6: Stephen Wilks, Lyndon Megarrity & Gregory Melleuish
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 5: David Furse-Roberts, Damien Freeman, Andrew Bragg & Julian Leeser
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 4: Andrew Norton, Ted Ling & Michael de Percy
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 3: Bob Bowker, Sean Jacobs & Elizabeth Buchanan
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 2: David Lee, Selwyn Cornish, & Paul Brown
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 1: Paul Kelly, Anne Henderson, & Paul Strangio
David Clune, ‘Offered the people economic rainbows’ Jack Lang
Ross Walker, ‘But you’re Prime Minister Harold’ Holt before Cheviot
James Franklin, ‘A heterogeneous society’ Arthur Calwell’s impact on Australia
Robert Porter, ‘Making a contribution to Australia’s National Development’ Rio Tinto in Australia
Dashiel Lawrence, ‘A profound connection’ A historical perspective of Australia-Israel Relations
Brett Mason, ‘Like a spider in a web’ The Aussie who rescued JFK
Anne Henderson, ‘A Shakespearean play’ Menzies vs Evatt
Peter Sekuless, ‘The Crowning Glory of her career’ Dame Annabelle Rankin
Jane Hume, ‘A stake in Australia’ The Homeownership Dilemma
Fraser Nelson, ‘A thrillingly unpredictable time’ The state of centre-right politics across the Anglosphere
Michael Wesley, ‘An extraordinary amount of passion’ The Place of Universities in Australian Life
Troy Bramston, ‘Continues to loom large’ Menzies’s Art of Politics
William Stoltz, ‘Unyielding Truths’ Confronting Australia’s strategic dilemmas armed with the past
David Stevens, ‘What should you stand for?’ The Future of Australian Liberalism
Jim Walter, ‘Stay on message’ The Evolving Office of the Prime Minister
Karl Schmude, ‘Transcended his time’ G.K. Chesterton
Allan Pidgeon, ‘Part of National Folklore’ The Story of the Australian Flag
Nyunggai Warren Mundine, ‘Only part of their story’ The Journey of Indigenous Australians from Menzies to the Voice
Ted Ling, ‘I Became An Apostle’ Menzies’s Mission to Develop Canberra
John Hawkins, ‘Prepared in a time of peace’ Menzies as Treasurer
Harry Stutchbury, ‘We know it empirically’ Markets and Prosperity
Stephen Chavura, ‘Not the Established Religion, but part of the Establishment’ Faith and Secularism in Australia
Tony Abbott, ‘Above All Else Patriots’ Battling for Australian Liberalism
Malcolm Turnbull, ‘You’ve got to recognise some political realities’ Liberal Leadership
Andrew Norton, ‘The utilitarian aspect has dominated’ Australia’s Universities