August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
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Speakers: The Hon John Howard AC, Georgina Downer - Director of the Robert Menzies Institute, The Hon John Anderson AC - The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Topic: 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Liberal Party of Australia - Launch of Unity in Autonomy Date: Thursday 28 November 2024 Time: 6pm Venue: Online via Zoom PLEASE NOTE: [...]
Speakers: The Hon John Howard AC, Georgina Downer - Director of the Robert Menzies Institute, The Hon John Anderson AC - The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Topic: 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Liberal Party of Australia - Launch of Unity in Autonomy Date: Thursday 28 November 2024 Time: 5.pm for 5.30 - 6pm Venue: [...]
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No two contestants in Australian political history could be said to have affected each other as much as Robert Menzies and Bert Evatt – one to have helped to establish a workable platform – the United Nations - to bring nations together in the cause of peace, the other to establish himself as Australia’s longest [...]
Speakers: The Hon John Howard AC & The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC Topic: Launch of Menzies versus Evatt: Australia's Great Political Rivalry. Date: Thursday 10 August 2023 Time: 5.30 pm for 6 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 GUEST - If you would [...]
Speakers: The Hon John Howard AC & The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC Topic: Launch of Menzies versus Evatt: Australia's Great Political Rivalry. Date: Thursday 10 August 2023 Time: 5.30 pm for 6 pm Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE [...]
As the 25th prime minister of Australia, The Hon John Howard MP managed to outlast all his predecessors, becoming the second longest serving Australian prime minister and bettered only by Sr Robert Menzies. In retirement, John Howard has written two best selling books - a personal memoir and a political evaluation of Robert Menzies. In [...]
