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Adrift in a Hobbesian world

What would Menzies make of today’s Liberal party?

22 October 2022

9:00 AM

22 October 2022

9:00 AM

It is a safe bet that Sir Robert Menzies would be deeply disturbed by the latest amendments to the national law regulating health practitioners. In his book, The Measure of the Years, Menzies wrote, ‘I would hate to see in my own country, any government scheme which lowered the importance of the doctor-patient relationship’.

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