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Ming was not a nationalist

Conservative revisionists and Liberal partisans can’t accept that Sir Robert Menzies was an empire man

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

The Liberal party has moved much further to the right than in the days of its illustrious founder Sir Robert Menzies. While the party continues to celebrate Menzies’s life and political achievements, it has no wish to recreate the sort of closed in, protected nation which Menzies did so much to preserve in the 1950s and 1960s.

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David Day’s first book was Menzies and Churchill at War (1986), which was republished by Thistle Books in 2013 as Churchill at War. His biography of Paul Keating will be published in November.

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