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Troy Bramston
Troy Bramston is a senior writer and columnist with The Australian…
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Join Troy Bramston (Robert Menzies) in conversation with Kate Fullagar, David Marr, and Michael Veitch to discuss their approach to biography.
Troy Bramston is a senior writer and columnist with The Australian newspaper. He was previously a columnist with The Sunday Telegraph. He is the bestselling author or editor of eleven books, including Bob Hawke: demons and destiny (2022), Robert Menzies: the art of politics (2019), and Paul Keating: the big-picture leader (2016). Troy co-authored The Truth of the Palace Letters (2020) and The Dismissal (2015) with Paul Kelly. He is currently writing a biography of Gough Whitlam.
Robert Menzies
A revelatory biography of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister.
Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet he staged one of the great comebacks to forge a new political party with a new philosophy, and to craft a winning electoral approach that was to make him Australia’s longest-serving prime minister.
The lessons Menzies learned — and the way he applied them — made him a model that every Liberal leader since has…
