Australia's Prime Ministers : R. G. Menzies

In the run up to the Federal Election, The Overnights show is taking a look at some of Australia's former Prime Ministers. The second PM we discussed was Australia's longest serving Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies.

Often characterised as an extreme monarchist and British to the Bootstraps, Robert Menzies was responsible for many post-war socioeconomic developments and linked Australia more closely to South-East Asia and the USA to counter what was seen as the spread of Communism and the possible isolation of Australia.Michael Pavlich spoke to Geoff Robinson, a political historian and lecturer in Australian Studies and Politics at Deakin University.

Threats, fear, politics and the shaping of insecurity 1946-1955

Governments use fear to promote political objectives. Through the exaggeration of external threats, fear as conceptualised in the writings of Hobbes, Barry Buzan, David Campbell and others, became a major factor in shaping Australia's post-war foreign and defence policies which were also intended to serve the government's domestic political agenda.

A look at the Middle East; background. [Text of a speech delivered at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., on March 14, 1957].

Mode of access: Internet.

Observations on the question, how can Sir Robert Peel's income tax be made more equitable /

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs and letters of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Morier, G.C.B., from 1826 to 1876,

Mode of access: Internet.

Notes by Sir Robert Heron, baronet.

Mode of access: Internet.

Observations on the motion of Sir Robert Heron, M.P.in the late parliament : respecting the vacating of seats in Parliament on the acceptance of office /

C. Roworth and Sons, printers.

Sir Robert Peel : Étude d'histoire contemporaine /

Mode of access: Internet.

Cottoni posthuma: divers choice pieces of that renowned antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, knight and baronet, preserved from the injury of time and exposed to publick light for the benefit of posterity

Reprint of the 1679 ed. of the collection of Cotton's tracts made by James Howell, with reproductions of the general t. p. of the collection and of the special title pages preceding each of the 16 tracts except the first.

Letter of Sir Matthew Barrington, Bart. to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.

941.58C692 v. 24 imperfect: p. 41-[42] wanting.

Sir Robert Peel : Étude d'histoire contemporaine /

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the valuable collection of Sanskrit manuscripts of Sir Robert Chambers which will be sold by auction, unless previously disposed of by private contract on or before the first of March 1842, by S. Leigh Sotheby on Apr. 13, 1842 and three following days.

Mode of access: Internet.

The three English brothers : Sir Thomas Sherley his travels, with his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie : his inlargement by his Maiesties letters to the great Turke : and lastly, his safe returne into England this present yeare, 1607 : Sir Anthony Sherley, his embassage to the Christian princes : Master Robert Sherley his wars against the Turkes, with his marriage to the Emperour of Persia his neece.

Signatures: A-K

Procès des trois Anglais, Robert-Thomas Wilson, John-Ely Hutchinson, Michel Bruce, et autres, accusés d'avoir facilité l'évation de Lavalette.

Mode of access: Internet.

An enquiry into the power of dispensing with penal statutes : together with some animadversions upon a book writ by Sir Edw. Herbert ... entituled, A short account of the authorities in law, upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales's case /

Includes bibliographical references.