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Menzies impact on Australian policy revolution

Edited by Zachary Gorman
Forward by The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
Appendix by Paul Kelly

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 Menzies became Australia’s longest serving prime minister. Between the closely fought 1954 and 1961 elections, the Coalition enjoyed a political dominance that allowed it to reshape the nation.