Robert Menzies

Thursday, September 24

The last Menzies minister: Jim Forbes' on the big issues

In 2014, Jim Forbes gave his first interview in decades to InDaily – it turned out to be one of his last. Forbes, the final surviving member of the Menzies ministry, died last Saturday at the age of 95. In this interview series, Forbes talks candidly about his career in politics and the big issues of the Menzies era.

'We're not conservatives': Turnbull hits out at party's right

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has sent a message to conservative members of his party, saying Sir Robert Menzies deliberately positioned the Liberal party in the centre when he founded it in 1944.

The Abbott-Turnbull battle is redolent of Labor's disastrous Rudd-Gillard turnstile. Composite image: AAP/Alan Porritt/Joe Castro/David Mariuz

Why the Liberals need to resist the Abbott forces

Liberal insurgents seeking to destabilise Malcolm Turnbull ignore the history of the party and threaten to shrink its relevance and representation, writes Chris Wallace.