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1-1-2017

Australian politics explainer: Robert Menzies and the birth of the Liberal- National coalition

Gregory C. Melleuish University of Wollongong, [email protected]

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Recommended Citation Melleuish, Gregory C., "Australian politics explainer: Robert Menzies and the birth of the Liberal-National coalition" (2017). Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers. 2913. https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/2913

Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Australian politics explainer: Robert Menzies and the birth of the Liberal-National coalition

Abstract It has become an established fact of Australian politics that when the non-Labor side of politics is in power, the government will be a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party. This has been the case for almost 100 years, since the formation of the Country Party in 1920. Even on those occasions when the Liberals have won a House of Representatives majority in their own right, the Coalition has held

Keywords birth, robert, coalition, menzies, australian, politics, explainer:, liberal-national

Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Law

Publication Details Melleuish, G. C. (2017). Australian politics explainer: Robert Menzies and the birth of the Liberal-National coalition. The Conversation, 10 April 1-3.

This journal article is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/2913