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Andrew Norton, ‘The utilitarian aspect has dominated’ Australia’s Universities

Zachary Gorman, ‘This Empowerment Philosophy’ Sir Joseph Cook

Gary Humphries, ‘A City of Carpetbaggers’ Canberra’s Political Development

Joshua Black, ‘Scandals or Spectacles’ Australian Political Memoir

Michael de Percy, ‘Developing our own capability’ Australia’s Nuclear Journey

Gerard Henderson, ‘Bob was a bit like that’ B.A. Santamaria

Brendan Nelson, ‘You have to give people incentives’ A journey to liberalism

Scott Morrison, ‘We are political tradies… we fix the stuff that needs fixing’ Liberal Governance

David Bird, ‘A parish pump politician from the potato plots of Tasmania’ Joseph Lyons

Keith Wolahan, ‘Living in a nation that’s worth fighting for’ The Korean War & the ANZAC Legacy

Alexander Downer, ‘A Progressive Conservative’ Being a Liberal Leader

Ebony Nilsson, ‘It Will Be Classified’ The Remarkable Story of Bill Marshall & ASIO’s Operatives in Australia

Bridget Griffen-Foley, ‘The Names are Familiar’ Menzies and the Media

Jeremy Hearder, ‘People just listened to him’ The Esteemed Career of Diplomat James Plimsoll

James Cotton, ‘UN 1.0’ Australia at the League of Nations

Chris Wallace, ‘Biography as political intervention’ Prime Ministerial Biographers

Nick Richardson, ‘Look out with a bit more confidence’ 1956 as a watershed moment in Australia

John Howard, ‘The Greatest Political Contributor to Modern Australia’ Howard on Menzies

Zachary Gorman, ‘Australia’s oldest political tradition’ The founding of the Liberal Party as an expression of Australian liberalism

Daniel Hannan, ‘A short term cost for long term gains’ Brexit and the state of UK politics

Frank Yuan, ‘Haunted with the statues of mediocrities’ Menzies’s views on America

Richard Pomfret, ‘The Age of Equality’ The 20th century as a contest of economic systems

Summer Series 2022-3 Part 6: David Furse-Roberts & Lyndon Megarrity

Summer Series 2022-3 Part 5: William Stoltz & David Lee

Summer Series 2022-3 Part 4: Lucas McLennan & Lorraine Finlay

Summer Series 2022-3 Part 3: Tom Switzer, Andrew Blyth, & Christopher Beer

Summer Series 2022-3 Part 2: Troy Bramston & Charles Richardson

Summer Series 2022-3 Part 1: George Brandis, Nicolle Flint, & Anne Henderson

Dean Kotlowski, ‘Not going to disappear’ Comparing American & Australian Indigenous Policy

Stephen Wilks, ‘This extraordinary synthesis of ideas for the Australian nation’ Earle Page

William Cook, ‘The sheer size of it’ Menzies’s Marvelous Book Collection

David Lee, ‘I don’t vote for them, but I’ll vote for John Curtin’ Labor’s Wartime Leader

Meg Gurry, ‘Australia has always been strategically inconsequential’ The Development of the India-Australia Relationship

Elizabeth Tynan, ‘They Had No Business Making Those Assurances’ British Nuclear Tests in Australia

Bain Attwood, ‘A sense of kin’ The Life of William Cooper

James Curran, ‘A certain amount of forgetting’ The Australia-China Relationship from Menzies Onward

Jonathan Pincus, ‘Two Very Different Visions’ Menzies’s Long Boom

Lord Jonathan Sumption, ‘An enormous font of vicarious experience’

Clement Macintyre, ‘First, Second, Third Priority was South Australia’ Thomas Playford & South Australian Exceptionalism

Christy Collis, ‘Truly Terra Nullius’ Australia’s Antarctic Claims

David Lowe ‘Less of a Plan than an Umbrella’ Examining Colombo & its Legacy

Mark Edele, ‘The history of their family, the history of their community’ Early Cold War Migration & its Impact on Australia

Re-Release: Jane Connors, ‘Because She Was Here’ The 1954 Royal Tour

Zachary Gorman, ‘A story of mythology coming true’ Magna Carta and its impact on Australia

Paul Williams, ‘Australian to the Bootheels’ Unpacking the John Gorton Experiment

Jeff Wilson, ‘A period of radical change and bravery on behalf of Australia’ Analysing today’s dilemmas through the lens of the Menzies Era

Andrew Carr, ‘A certain amount of public work’ Menzies as a Civic Republican

Greg Melleuish & Zachary Gorman, ‘A big step in Australia becoming a plural society’ The Goulburn Catholic School Strike and the State Aid Dilemma

Nick Dyrenfurth, ‘This amorphous concept’ An Australian Understanding of Citizenship

Wayne Reynolds, ‘We have this deterrent’ Australia’s Nuclear Ambition

Patrick Mullins, ‘A question that had to be asked and answered’ How did Billy McMahon reach the top of Australian politics?

Heather Henderson, ‘He took a great interest in a lot of young ones’ Memories of My Father

Tom Frame, ‘An Orderly and Seamless Transition of Power’ The Life and Achievements of Harold Holt

Bridget Brooklyn, ‘A Tendency to See This As Monolithic’ Unpacking the 1954 Election

Peter Drysdale: ‘A Radical Idea’ Personal Reflections on the Australia-Japan Relationship

Gray Connolly: ‘A Very Strong Communitarian Element’ Exploring Australian Conservatism

Alexander Downer: ‘A Sense of History’ Political Leadership in a Troubled World

Troy Bramston: ‘That Sense of Stature About Them’ Comparing Menzies and Hawke

William Stoltz: ‘Its work was so sensitive that Parliament shouldn’t be briefed on it’ ASIS at 70

Darius von Güttner: ‘Reaching Out to the Past and Choosing What They Want to Be’ The Ukraine Conflict and the Importance of History

James Paterson: ‘A Dramatic Wake Up Call’ Navigating Contemporary Geopolitical Threats

Peter Edwards: ‘One of the Greatest Examples of Australian Statecraft’ Australia’s Military Commitments Under Menzies

Peter Kurti: ‘Raging Against the Past’ The Problem with Historical Cancellation

Thomas Wilkins: ‘Upholding a Rules-Based Order’ Australia-Japan Relations

Ian McAllister: ‘What Hasn’t Changed?’ The Evolution of Australian Elections since the Menzies Era

Paul Morrissey: ‘Educating the Whole Person’ The Enduring Importance of a Liberal Approach to Education

David Kemp and Nick Cater: ‘Liberalism and the belief of the individual person as the way to civil politics’ The Robert Menzies Institute Exhibition

Joy Damousi: ‘Compulsion, Censorship & the Price of Freedom’ How WW1’s Conscription Debate was Fought Out at the University of Melbourne

James Brown: ‘An Ideal Partner’ Australia’s Space Industry

Keith Mason: ‘A Spectacular Series of Failures’ The Egon Kisch Affair

Sybil Nolan: ‘His Whole Prospects were Formed Out of Study’ Discovery in the Menzies Collection

William Sanders: ‘A Progressive Inclusive & a Group Conservative’ Indigenous Policy Under the Menzies Government

Selwyn Cornish: ‘A Living Organism’ The History of the Reserve Bank of Australia

Martyn Lyons: ‘They Certainly Felt Empowered’ Writing Letters to Menzies

Jane Connors, ‘Because She Was Here’ The 1954 Royal Tour

Scott Prasser ‘The Learning Leader’ and Nick Cater ‘Forgotten People to Quiet Australians’

Anne Henderson: ‘Preparation for War, the Trade Union Movement and Appeasement’ and Frank Bongiorno: ‘Curtin and Menzies’

David Furse-Roberts ‘A Simple Presbyterian in Politics: Robert Menzies, Liberalism and Anti-Sectarianism’

Gregory Melleuish: ‘The Idea of Education According to the Young Menzies, 1916-1945’ and Judith Brett: ‘Menzies’s Debt to Deakinite Liberalism’

Justice James Edelman: ‘Menzies and the Law’

David Kemp ‘Menzies: Time for a Reappraisal?’ and Troy Bramston ‘Young Robert’

Gideon Haigh: ‘The Brilliant Boy’ Remembering the Achievements of Dr H.V. Evatt

Barry Jones: ‘A Strong Acquaintance’ Personal Reflections on Menzies and the Menzies Era

James Waghorne: ‘A Light on the Hill & A Place of Truth’ Menzies’s University Days

Anne Henderson: ‘Given the Opportunity, She Took It’, The Remarkable Career of Margaret Guilfoyle

Ben Wilkie: ‘A Scottish Chauvinist’ The Scots Influence on Robert Menzies’s Worldview

Warren Mundine: ‘An Enormous Foundation for Things to Happen’ Indigenous Policy under the Menzies Government

Scott Prasser: ‘The Institution of Last Resort’ Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries Under Menzies

Bob Bowker: ‘The Decline of an Empire to which Australians Largely Wished Still to Belong’ Menzies and the Suez Crisis

Tim Costello: ‘You are Blessed to be a Blessing’ Menzies’s Sense of Duty to Australia’s Neighbours

Stephen Chavura: ‘Britishness Meant… a Love of Liberty Tempered by an Emphasis on Duty’, Examining Menzies’s Political Beliefs in Context

David Furse-Roberts: ‘Divine Order in a Distracted Human World’, The Religious Underpinnings of Menzies’s Politics

Margaret Fitzherbert: ‘So Many Firsts’, The History of Australia’s Liberal Women

George Williams: ‘More Important Than A Half Dozen General Elections?’, The Communist Referendum

Henry Ergas: ‘The Wealth of the Nation’, Menzies’s Economic Legacy

Sean Jacobs: ‘Compromise over Confrontation’, the Story of Neville Bonner

Stephen Loosley AM on ANZUS: its past, present and future

Professor Timothy Lynch: the Geopolitics of ANZUS

Dr Brendan Nelson AO: ANZUS at 70

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