It wasn’t just COVID-19 that led to the 250th anniversary of Cook’s landing passing by relatively unnoticed. By Nick Cater.
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Tony Abbott, as prime minister in 2014, delivered two definitive speeches about the need to cut the red tape that was infuriating business. This reform is now more important than ever.
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As a valued Subscriber to the Menzies Research Centre, please download and enjoy this history of the Liberal Party of Australia, written by MRC Executive Director Nick Cater and Liberal historian J.R. Nethercote.
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Introduction to The Lucky Culture And The Rise of an Australian Ruling Class, by Nick Cater (HarperCollins, 2013).
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In these two speeches, delivered on the same day in Canberra in 2014, prime minister Tony Abbott says our failure to care for Australia’s Indigenous people is a ‘stain on our soul,’ and finds that much of the laconic Australian character can be attributed to Indigenous humour and stoicism.
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Robert Menzies laid the intellectual and cultural foundations that enabled subsequent governments, both Labor and Liberal, to create one of the world’s most free and prosperous nations. By David Kemp
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The Robert Menzies speech that defines postwar Australia - and eight others from his famous radio series - have been re-created for the MRC by actor Peter Cousens.
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Prolonged peace has made Most Australians complacent about the need for nationalist morale. We are far more vulnerable than we think, says former major general Jim Molan.
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Menzies was unequivocal about the social benefits of religion. Here, for the first time, are all his recorded references to the importance of faith and freedom. By David Furse-Roberts.
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In June 2002, John Howard became only the third Australian PM to address a joint sitting of the US Congress. His speech sums up our cultural and military alliance.
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Three generations of Australian Liberal women explain Dame Enid Lyons’ legacy on the 75th anniversary of her famous maiden speech. By Fred Pawle.
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Enid Lyons’ maiden speech to the House of Representatives, September 29, 1943.
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How one 20-minute speech in 1943 changed Australian politics and foretold the major political and social issues of the postwar era. By David Furse-Roberts.
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Convincing Australians that government expenditure cuts benefit everyone is the Liberal Party’s eternal challenge. The alternative – debt and taxes – defies our principles, says Peter Costello.
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