Join the Robert Menzies Institute in collaboration with The PM Glynn Institute at ACU in Sydney to celebrate the launch of our first book The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 on Tuesday 21 February 2023 5:30pm – 7:00pm.

We are honoured to have The Honourable John Howard OM AC 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.

Tickets to the launch are available here. Venue will be advised upon registration.

Light refreshments will be served from 5:30pm, with formalities commencing at 6:00pm.

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.