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80 Years of Liberalism

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Liberal Party, The Insitute’s Museum Assistant Victoria Hronas curated an exhibit of artifacts reflecting Menzies’s and his fellow public servant’s contribution to the Party.

 

The new items on display include: Parliamentary Debates from 1946, inspiring Biographies of key Liberal Party members Dame Enid Lyons and Sir Thomas Playford, and a 1944 South Australian newspaper reporting on the day the Liberal Party was first constituted.

The items displayed are on loan from the Baillieu Library’s Robert Menzies Collection, The National Museum of Australia, The Museum of Australia Democracy at Old Parliament House, and The Menzies Family.

 

Exhibition Items

Edmund Burke, Selections from His Political Writings and Speeches

Dame Enid Lyons, So We Take Comfort (1965)

Federalism in Australia (1949)

David Nicholas, The Pacemaker: The Playford Story; with a foreword by Sir Robert Menzies (1969)

Fred Alexander, From Curtin to Menzies and After: Continuity or Confrontation? (1973)

Katherine West, Power in the Liberal Party: A Study in Australian Politics + Letter (1965)

James Stuart MacDonald, The Art of F. McCubbin, (1916)

Henry Mayer, Australian Politics: A Reader (1967)

Liberal Party of Australia, The First Ten Years: The Menzies Government (1959)

Previous Exhibitions

21 Jun 2024

80th Anniversary Touring Exhibit

25 Mar 2024

The Poet Among Statesmen

25 Sep 2023

Decades of Menzies

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