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Upcoming Events

Melbourne Launch of The Menzies Ascendency – Lord Mayor of Melbourne

9 Apr, 2025
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

2025 ANZAC Oration by General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove

29 Apr, 2025
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Menzies Early Career Network Book Launch

6 Feb, 2025

Launch of The Menzies Ascendancy – The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG & Paul Kelly

3 Feb, 2025

End of Year Celebration and Book Launch

3 Dec, 2024

Canberra Book Launch: Unity in Autonomy

6 Nov, 2024

‘The Final Chapter: Purpose, Endurance, and Legacy 1961-66 and Beyond’

23 Nov, 2024

2024 Oration and Dinner with Sir Niall Ferguson

23 Oct, 2024

The Future of the Two Party System

22 Aug, 2024

OPEN DAY 2024 ROBERT MENZIES INSTITUTE

18 Aug, 2024

Scottish Enlightenment Lecture – as part of the Tartan Festival

18 Jul, 2024

Book Launch ‘The Art of Opposition’ edited by Scott Prasser and David Clune

19 Jun, 2024

‘The Poet Among Statesmen’ Exhibition Launch

21 May, 2024

ANZAC Oration: World War One 110 Years On

23 Apr, 2024

The Menzies Watershed Sydney Launch

9 Apr, 2024

The Menzies Watershed Brisbane Launch

28 Feb, 2024

The Menzies Watershed Canberra Launch

26 Feb, 2024

O-Week Kick Off Event

22 Feb, 2024

Christmas Drinks

6 Dec, 2023

‘The Menzies Ascendency: Implementing a Liberal Agenda and Consolidating Gains, 1954-1961’

23 Nov, 2023

Book Launch : The Menzies Watershed

3 Nov, 2023

Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK

30 Oct, 2023

2023 Gala Dinner and Oration

19 Oct, 2023

Menzies Versus Evatt: The Great Rivalry of Australian Politics

4 Oct, 2023

Becoming the ‘Mind of the Nation’ – How Robert Menzies hoped to place Australian universities at the centre of our national life

7 Sep, 2023

Troy Bramston and Alexander Downer In Conversation

31 Aug, 2023

Australia’s Dilemmas: Then and Now

22 Aug, 2023

A Forgotten Platform for Reform: Indigenous Policy During the Menzies Era

2 Aug, 2023

Book Launch – Markets and Prosperity

18 Jul, 2023

Book Launch – Joseph Cook: The knight who climbed up a mineshaft

24 May, 2023

Debate

10 May, 2023

ANZAC Event: 70 Years of the Korean War Truce

26 Apr, 2023

Exhibition Launch

29 Mar, 2023

Semester 1 – Kick Off Event

1 Mar, 2023

The Young Menzies Sydney Launch

21 Feb, 2023

The Young Menzies Brisbane Launch

3 Feb, 2023

Exhibition Launch and Christmas Drinks

7 Dec, 2022

‘Coming to Power, Learning to Govern and Gathering Momentum, 1943-1954’

17 Nov, 2022

The Young Menzies Book Launch

17 Nov, 2022

2022 Oration and Annual Gala Dinner

13 Oct, 2022

Sydney Event

11 Oct, 2022

Canberra Event

10 Oct, 2022

Brisbane Event

7 Oct, 2022

Early Cold War Migration and its Impact on Australia

31 Aug, 2022

Visiting Fellow Dr William Stoltz

5 May, 2024

ANZAC Event

21 Apr, 2024

Robert Menzies Institute Exhibition Launch

17 Mar, 2022

Compulsion, Censorship & the Price of Freedom: How WW1’s Conscription Debate was Fought Out at the University of Melbourne

23 Feb, 2022

Opening Gala Dinner

18 Nov, 2021

First Annual Conference Menzies The Early Years “Success, Failure, Resilience”

18 Nov, 2021

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