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Robert Menzies Forgotten People
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Author : Judith Brett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Robert Menzies Forgotten People written by Judith Brett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Australia categories.
Smaller-format paperback reissue of a book first published in 1992 giving an appraisal of Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving prime minister. Explores the links between the private and public meanings of his remarkable political career. The author finds an ambivalence in the man which in many ways mirrors that which can be found at the heart of the Australian character.
The Forgotten People
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Author : Paul Ritchie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-05
The Forgotten People written by Paul Ritchie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with History categories.
Robert Menzies' famous Forgotten People speeches captured the hopes of Australians as they looked forward to a better life after World War II. While times have changed, Menzies' themes of freedom, opportunity and responsibility remain. In The Forgotten People: Updated, Menzies' political heirs revisit these themes against the contemporary backdrop of freedom of speech, urban life, fairness, education, political correctness, Trump, the rise of China and more.
The Forgotten People
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Author : Robert Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Limited
Release Date : 2018-03
The Forgotten People written by Robert Menzies and has been published by Connor Court Publishing Pty Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with Literary Collections categories.
75th Anniversary Edition. First Published in 1943.
Robert Menzies Forgotten People
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Author : Judith Brett
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Robert Menzies Forgotten People written by Judith Brett and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Political Science categories.
'Menzies' political self was constructed around a denial of experience and an imagined England filled the void. So too for the people and the country he led...' In 1941, RG Menzies delivered to war-time Australia what was to be his richest, most creative speech, and one of his most influential. 'The Forgotten People' was a direct address to the Australian middle class, the 'people' who would return him to power in 1949 and keep him there until his retirement in 1966. Who were these 'forgotten people'? The middle class pitting their values of hard work and independence against the collectivist ethos of labour? Women shunning the class-based politics of men? The parents of Menzies' childhood in the small country town of Jeparit? Australians struggling to maintain a derivative culture at the edges of the British Empire? Or all of them, in a richly over-determined image that takes us to the heart of Menzies' mid-life political transformation? Judith Brett deftly traces the links between the private and public meanings of Menzies' political language to produce compelling insights into the man and the culture he represented.
Dear Prime Minister
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Author : Martyn Lyons
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-01
Dear Prime Minister written by Martyn Lyons and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-01 with History categories.
‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance. Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent their congratulations and grievances and commented on speeches they had heard on radio. They lectured him, quoted Shakespeare and the Bible at him and sent advice on how to eliminate the rabbit problem. In Dear Prime Minister, Menzies’ fabled ‘Forgotten People’ write back. Revealed here for the first time, the letters respond to the royal visit of 1954, Communism, Australia’s British connection and the dire poverty of aged pensioners. For many writers, these were not post-war boom years, but a time of anxiety and conflict, punctuated by fears of war, another Great Depression, or a nuclear Armageddon. Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians. 'An elegantly wry testament to a lost era of letter-writing, as Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’ lay bare their assorted fears, gripes, hopes, sycophancy, paranoia, generosity, smugness, ingrained racism, sectarian prejudices, sometimes desperate poverty – and often atrocious spelling.' – Richard White
The Forgotten People
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Author : Robert Menzies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
The Forgotten People written by Robert Menzies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Australia categories.
The Forgotten Menzies
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Author : Stephen Chavura
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-04
The Forgotten Menzies written by Stephen Chavura and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Political Science categories.
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the founder of the Liberal Party of Australia. As well as being Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, Menzies was the most thoughtful. Menzies’ world picture was one where Britishness was the overriding normative principle, and in which cultural puritanism and philosophical idealism were pervasive. Unless we remember this cultural background of Menzies’ thought then we will seriously misunderstand what he meant by the very project of liberalism. The Forgotten Menzies argues that Menzies’ greatest aspiration was to protect the ideals of cultural puritanism Australia from two kinds of materialism: communism; and the mindset encouraged by affluence and technological progress. Central to Menzies’ project of cultural and civilisational preservation was the university, an institution he spent much of his career extolling and expanding. The Forgotten Menzies makes an important contribution to the history of political thought and ideology in Australia, as to understanding the largely forgotten but rich intellectual origins of the Liberal Party.
The Forgotten People
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Author : Sir Robert Menzies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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This book bridges the decades for a new generation and honours the extraordinary contribution of one man whose political beliefs remain central to politics and national policy making today.
Menzies And The Great World Struggle
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Author : David Lowe
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 1999
Menzies And The Great World Struggle written by David Lowe and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Australia categories.
Lowe (history, Deakin U.) finds prime minister Robert Menzies to be the towering figure of the age as he explores the Cold War from Australia's perspective. He pivots on the three themes of the threat of a third world war and the imperatives of Australia's rapid economic development.
Quarterly Essay 78 The Coal Curse
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Author : Judith Brett
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2020-06-22
Quarterly Essay 78 The Coal Curse written by Judith Brett and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-22 with Political Science categories.
Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country – heavy on raw materials, and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep’s back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that COVID-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a better way forward, which supports renewable energy and local manufacturing? Judith Brett traces the unusual history of Australia’s economy and the “resource curse” that has shaped our politics. She shows how the mining industry learnt to run fear campaigns, and how the Coalition became dominated by fossil-fuel interests to the exclusion of other voices. In this insightful essay about leadership, vision and history, she looks at the costs of Australia’s coal addiction and asks, where will we be if the world stops buying it? “Faced with the crisis of a global pandemic, for the first time in more than a decade Australia has had evidence-based, bipartisan policy-making. Politicians have listened to the scientists and ... put ideology and the protection of vested interests aside and behaved like adults. Can they do the same to commit to fast and effective action to try to save our children’s and grandchildren’s future, to prevent the catastrophic fires and heatwaves the scientists predict, the species extinction and the famines?” —Judith Brett, The Coal Curse