Robert G Menzies – Nelle's journey

An Appreciation

The Liberal Party’s First Daughter Mark McGinness The Melbourne Argus announced on August 13, 1928: “MENZIES – On the 3rd August, at Lancewood, Glenferrie Road, Kew, to Mr and Mrs Robert Menzies, of Howard Street, Kew, a daughter”. That daughter was christened Margery Heather (always Heather), the youngest child, and then and forever the apple ofContinue reading “An Appreciation”

Forgetting the forgotten

Flat White Beverley McArthur Getty Images Beverley McArthur 27 June 2023 4:30 AM For a few days now, I have been thinking about the following sentences: ‘I do not believe that the real life of this nation is to be found either in great luxury hotels and the petty gossip of so-called fashionable suburbs, orContinue reading “Forgetting the forgotten”