Seventy-five years ago this week, a Canberra meeting convened by Robert Menzies decided to establish a new political party, the Liberal party of Australia. The then Mr Menzies became its first parliamentary leader, before in late 1949 going on to serve as prime minister until early 1966.
The Liberal party has been in national office for fifty of its seventy-five years.
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