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    Sir Robert Gordon Menzies KT AK CH QC FAA FRS (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister...
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  • player Robert Menzies (actor) (born 1955), Australian television actor Robert Menzies College, a residential college of Macquarie University Menzies (disambiguation)...
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  • "thing is" and "sting is", to rhyme with "Menzies". "Wasp" rhymes with "gasp" in Scots. Alan W. C. Menzies (1877–1966), Scots-born chemist and professor...
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  • Robert Menzies (born 4 November 1955) is an Australian actor, who is best known for starring in Three Dollars. Menzies was nominated as Best Lead Actor...
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    the new "Democratic Party". This new group looked to Robert Menzies to provide leadership. Menzies called a conference of conservative parties and other...
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    acting experience.[citation needed] Menzies sang "So Long, Farewell" and the "Lonely Goatherd" in the film. Menzies went on to appear in a number of television...
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    Party. It provided two prime ministers: Joseph Lyons (1932–1939) and Robert Menzies (1939–1941). The UAP was created in the aftermath of the 1931 split...
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    his place as Menzies' heir apparent. Holt became prime minister in January 1966, elected unopposed as Liberal leader following Menzies' retirement. He...
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  • the Depression. Lyons' death in 1939 saw Robert Menzies assume the Prime Ministership on the eve of war. Menzies served as Prime Minister from 1939 to 1941...
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    and Edmure Tully in Game of Thrones. Menzies was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the son of Peter Menzies and Gillian (née Simpson).[citation needed]...
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    interim basis. When Robert Menzies was elected by the United Australia Party (UAP) as Lyons' replacement, Page gave a speech accusing Menzies of disloyalty...
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    Menzies (KT, 1963), Fadden (KCMG, 1951), McEwen (GCMG, 1971), Gorton (GCMG, 1977), and McMahon (GCMG, 1977). Of those awarded, Barton and Menzies were...
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    established in 1901, thirty men and one woman have been prime minister. Robert Menzies and Kevin Rudd served two non-consecutive terms in office while Alfred...
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    election. Robert Menzies promoted him to the ministry in 1951 and added him to cabinet in 1956. He held several different portfolios in the Menzies government...
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    the Sunday Mirror that Menzies had paid a Brazilian male escort for sex and tried to obtain the illegal drug mephedrone. Menzies said a number of the claims...
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    The R. G. Menzies House, also known colloquially as Liberal Headquarters, or simply Menzies House, is the official headquarters of the Australian Federal...
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  • Robert Menzies College (RMC) is an Anglican residential college of Macquarie University. Established in 1972, the college was named after former Prime...
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    then as Minister for Supply and Development from 1939 to 1940 (under Robert Menzies). During the Second World War, Casey was Ambassador to the United States...
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  • individuals who have held the office of Prime Minister of Australia. Sir Robert Menzies was the longest serving prime minister of Australia, serving for 18...
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    serve in a Coalition government led by Menzies. On 3 September 1939, Australia entered World War II, with Menzies making a declaration of a state of war...
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    Minister, and Australia's third-longest-serving prime minister behind Robert Menzies and John Howard. He is also the only prime minister to be born in South...
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    from even many of its allies over the war. Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies feared the expansion of communism into Asia-Pacific countries, such...
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    of Prime Minister Menzies and five senior ministers including Hughes. Labor opposition leader John Curtin declined to join and Menzies lost his majority...
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    decade held a variety of different portfolios in the governments of Sir Robert Menzies and Harold Holt. He was responsible at various times for the Royal Australian...
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    Pattie Maie Menzies GBE (2 March 1899 – 30 August 1995) was the wife of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. Menzies was born...
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  • Nationalist Party and the United Australia Party (which was led by Robert Menzies prior to him founding the Liberal Party). Although government has been...
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  • 1957–58. Mount Menzies was named by ANCA after the Rt. Hon. Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, 1939–41 and 1949–66. Mount Menzies was first reached...
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    government (a United Australia Party-Country Party coalition under Robert Menzies and Arthur Fadden) had planned to abandon most of northern Australia...
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  • Robert Edward James Menzies (17 April 1916 – 11 September 1983) was an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer who played 17 first-class matches between...
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    Robert Menzies after eight years in opposition, McEwen became Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, switching to Minister for Trade in 1956. Menzies...
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