Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

'Menzies' political self was constructed around a denial of experience and an imagined England filled the void. So too for the people and the country he led.' In 1941, RG Menzies delivered to war-time Australia what was to be his richest, most creative speech, and one of his most influential. 'The Forgotten People' was a direct address to the Australian middle class, the 'people' who would return him to power in 1949 and keep him there until his retirement in 1966. Who were these 'forgotten peop