Join the Robert Menzies Institute in Brisbane to celebrate the launch of our first book The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 on Friday 3 February 2023 11:00am – 12:30pm.

We are honoured to have The Hon Peter Dutton MP to launch this book, the first, in a four-volume history of Menzies and his world, based on conferences convened by the Robert Menzies Institute at the University of Melbourne.

Light refreshments will be served from 11:00am, with formalities commencing at 11:30am.

Copies of The Young Menzies will be available to purchase on the day.

Venue will be advised upon registration.

About The Book

The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 explores the formative period of Menzies’s life, when his personal outlook and system of beliefs that would help shape modern Australia were still being formed. Contributors look at Menzies’s ideas prior to their political practice and examine their context and origins. This period is also the time in which Menzies first attained power, though in difficult circumstances, when the focus of the nation was on survival. It was in losing office that Menzies was given the impetus to develop his vision for post-war Australia.

Contributors include Frank Bongiorno, Troy Bramston, Judith Brett, Nick Cater, Justice James Edelman, David Furse-Roberts, Anne Henderson, David Kemp, Angela Kittikhoun, Greg Melleuish and Scott Prasser, with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey.