Remembering Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies
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*Booking From 9 October only* Speaker(s): Heather Henderson Date: 2013-10-23 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley, Sydney (opposite Chifley Sq, between Phillip, Hunter and Elizabeth Streets) Time: 5:30 for 6pm
Heather Henderson is the daughter of Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, the editor of Letters to My Daughter and, most recently, author of A Smile for My Parents. Heather Henderson was born in Melbourne and moved to Canberra in 1951 after her father Robert Menzies became prime minister. In 1955 she married Peter Henderson [...]
In 2011, Sir Robert Menzies’ daughter Heather Henderson published her father’s letters to her, written over the years she had been living overseas with her diplomat husband Peter Henderson. These letters reveal a very different Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia from 1939-1941 and again from 1949-1966, from the imposing public figure most Australian came [...]
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Speaker(s): Heather Henderson Date: 2011-08-17 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 15, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
Speaker(s): Heather Henderson Date: 1994-10-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm)