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Zachary Gorman
Explores the formative period of Sir Robert Menzies’s life, when his personal outlook and system of beliefs that would help shape modern Australia were themselves still being formed. Contributors look…
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The Magna Carta and its influence on democracy revealed.
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Australian liberalism is the nation's oldest political tradition, yet its belief in freedom of thought and action has often inhibited its adherents from joining together in common purpose.
Resolving this…
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The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy…
Menzies impact on Australian policy revolution
Was Menzies's unprecedented electoral success merely a matter of luck, or did he make fortune bend to his will? On 30 November 1954, Robert…
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Sir Joseph Cook was Australia's sixth Prime Minister and a truly remarkable man. His greatest political achievement was becoming the first leader of the Australian centre-right to win a federal…
The decades immediately preceding and following Federation were the formative years of Australian politics. This biography tells the story of that period of transition through the life of one of…
Joseph Carruthers
According to detractors, Captain Cook’s centricity to the founding of Australia is a harmful colonialist myth . The man many of them blame for starting that myth is Sir Joseph…
