"And people who migrate don't need a great deal of capital to start?" - no, not in 1955 they didn't. Not when unions were strong and people earnt a decent wage. House prices were three times the average income. Since Howard house prices are nine times the average income. People who migrate need to be millionaires to get a start. John Howard: "I never met anyone who complained to me that their house was increasing in value." Menzies would not have said that but he knew we needed a strong middle class, not a society of debt slaves.
L: "Would you say that Australia was still a land of opportunity for those that wish to go there? " M: "Well I would of course, tremendous opportunity." L: "And people don't need a great deal of capital to start?" M: "I think the greatest capital that people need is a willingness to work and take a chance, just as our grandparents did when they came to Australia"
He was always worth listening to no matter the subject, even if you didn't always agree with him. Clyde Cameron, a very leftist Labor man, said the most brilliant sppech he ever heard was by Menzies, and Cameron agreed with hardly a word of it.
What a great statesman Sir Robert was . Turnbull with all his blustering and B.S , will never come close to this great man , no matter how much he tries to snow us
Since you made this comment, the Liberals dumped Malcolm and took on Scott Morrison. Malcolm missed his cue. He should have said, 'Pardon me for thinking this is still the party of Menzies'. What would you say about Scott Morrison? I made a comment on another video that, compared to John McCain, Donald Trump is just something left on the pavement when a dog crouches down. I would say the same about Scott Morrison, when compared to Robert Menzies.
What a brilliant man. We have suffered since his departure. Compare the strength of the man compared to those of today. I feel we have failed them. They were a great generation.
Until sometime around the 80s the Australian accent Menzies is using here was specifically taught in private schools to differentiate the poor and the wealthy. Hawke ended this immediately when in office which is one of the reasons why Fraser was the last PM with this accent - although come to think of it I think Turnbull may have it too? Not certain on that. Anyway, this accent was known as Received Pronunciation or RP. It was a way of commonly associating the powerful from the powerless, upper class and lower/working class, white man and black man, etc. whereby those with RP had a greater chance of securing higher regarded jobs, status, influence and so on while the majority of born Australians with the amalgamated “rough” accent, to quote Menzies directly, were consequently relegated to lower positions in Australian society. The RP accent is still very much around and won’t die out but it isn’t instituted as it used to be and in many ways is now looked down upon in Australia for the reasons stated above^
It's funny how things are so important at the time, but now they're all dead. Everything they do eventually gets undone/redone etc etc, and round we go.
Regarding the accent, I suspect that Ming was somewhat putting on the UKRP. If you check the following video you can hear that he lapsed into a more Aussie twang when being interviewed in Australia: th-cam.com/video/JhvmsV9bnxQ/w-d-xo.html
Not a British accent its an Australian accent. The interviewer has a British accent. Australians don't talk like Paul Hogan you know. Also Sir Robert was born in the late 1890's and was a lawyer by profession and lawyers speaks well too.
Yes, he was a good prime minister, but also a lucky prime minister being in office during stable economic times. He was also a politician and 1954 was probably the greatest re election stunt ever with the possible exception of the Tampa in 2001.
Comparing Robert Menzies and the government he led, and its policies with Scott Morrison and his government and the Liberal Party of today, which has deserted the centre and embraced right-wing extremism, I have no doubt Menzies would be horrified, and express utter condemnation.
@@MothyEmms Robert Menzies said in his 'Forgotten People' address on radio on May 22, 1942, 'The rich can look after themselves'. He identified the suburban family as the heart of the nation, and established that the suburban family should be the basis of government policy. During his sixteen years as Prime Minister, real wages rose, there was prosperity shared by everyone, and the national debt, which had reached 120% of GDP because of the war, was steadily paid down. Compare that with the Liberal governments since 2013: Wage stagnation, tax cuts overwhelmingly benefitting the rich, and the national debt growing from $257 Billion in 2013 to $853 Billion as at November 2021, and headed for over $1 Trillion soon. Which would you choose? After his retirement, the Liberal party drifted away from the character it had under Menzies, and in 1974, he commented privately, 'The idiots now running the Liberal Party will drive me round the bend'. He believed that salvation for the Liberal Party would only come when Malcolm Fraser became leader. But Fraser and his government were a disappointment to Menzies during the remaining two and a half years of his life. Inflation in the USA is now at a 40-year high, because of the program of 'Quantitative easing', which is a euphemism for the Federal Reserve buying US Treasury bonds, because no one else wants to. But that creates money, because the Fed simply writes a cheque on the credit of the United States, which the Treasury deposits in a bank, which can then make loans using this credit. This is completely contrary to the Fed's main mission, of controlling the money supply, to make sure it matches the total value of goods and services in the economy. Quantitative easing causes a lot of extra money to flood the economy, causing inflation. I was shocked to learn on the ABC news finance report, by Alan Kohler, that the Reserve Bank has been doing the same thing here, and that will be the reason inflation is rising here too. If Robert Menzies was alive to see this, he would say, 'The incompetent idiots now running the Liberal Government will drive me round the bend'. How does that make you feel?
"I will defeat communism with the power of my eyebrows" -Robert Menzies
"And people who migrate don't need a great deal of capital to start?" - no, not in 1955 they didn't. Not when unions were strong and people earnt a decent wage. House prices were three times the average income. Since Howard house prices are nine times the average income. People who migrate need to be millionaires to get a start. John Howard: "I never met anyone who complained to me that their house was increasing in value." Menzies would not have said that but he knew we needed a strong middle class, not a society of debt slaves.
L: "Would you say that Australia was still a land of opportunity for those that wish to go there? "
M: "Well I would of course, tremendous opportunity."
L: "And people don't need a great deal of capital to start?"
M: "I think the greatest capital that people need is a willingness to work and take a chance, just as our grandparents did when they came to Australia"
Different times back then. The doors of opportunity are now firmly shut.
So Eloquent was Sir Robert Menzies -
He was always worth listening to no matter the subject, even if you didn't always agree with him. Clyde Cameron, a very leftist Labor man, said the most brilliant sppech he ever heard was by Menzies, and Cameron agreed with hardly a word of it.
What a great statesman Sir Robert was . Turnbull with all his blustering and B.S , will never come close to this great man , no matter how much he tries to snow us
Would you argue that Menzies is the father of modern Australia?
@@Wapak95 That's gotta be Arthur Phillip primarily, but Menzies is definitely up there and a top statesman either way
Since you made this comment, the Liberals dumped Malcolm and took on Scott Morrison. Malcolm missed his cue. He should have said, 'Pardon me for thinking this is still the party of Menzies'. What would you say about Scott Morrison? I made a comment on another video that, compared to John McCain, Donald Trump is just something left on the pavement when a dog crouches down. I would say the same about Scott Morrison, when compared to Robert Menzies.
Hes got bushy eyebrows
Reminds me of Leonid Brezhnev.
What a legend 🔥🇦🇺
What a brilliant man. We have suffered since his departure. Compare the strength of the man compared to those of today. I feel we have failed them. They were a great generation.
They had giants in leadership back
Then. Now the west is surrounded by
Idiots like Biden.
What has happened to our accent ?
His vocation and oration is Omni brilliant
Until sometime around the 80s the Australian accent Menzies is using here was specifically taught in private schools to differentiate the poor and the wealthy. Hawke ended this immediately when in office which is one of the reasons why Fraser was the last PM with this accent - although come to think of it I think Turnbull may have it too? Not certain on that.
Anyway, this accent was known as Received Pronunciation or RP.
It was a way of commonly associating the powerful from the powerless, upper class and lower/working class, white man and black man, etc. whereby those with RP had a greater chance of securing higher regarded jobs, status, influence and so on while the majority of born Australians with the amalgamated “rough” accent, to quote Menzies directly, were consequently relegated to lower positions in Australian society.
The RP accent is still very much around and won’t die out but it isn’t instituted as it used to be and in many ways is now looked down upon in Australia for the reasons stated above^
@@jamesreynold6711 thanks mate cheers.
It's funny how things are so important at the time, but now they're all dead. Everything they do eventually gets undone/redone etc etc, and round we go.
Regarding the accent, I suspect that Ming was somewhat putting on the UKRP. If you check the following video you can hear that he lapsed into a more Aussie twang when being interviewed in Australia: th-cam.com/video/JhvmsV9bnxQ/w-d-xo.html
As a British migrant in 1965. Robert Menses Liberal party had been in power 16 years..
Menzies
Your point being?????
Wow, Aussies had such a British sounding accent back then
Not a British accent its an Australian accent. The interviewer has a British accent. Australians don't talk like Paul Hogan you know. Also Sir Robert was born in the late 1890's and was a lawyer by profession and lawyers speaks well too.
J Lord although upper class Australian’s don’t sound anything like that now.
Roosevelt's accent was different to the general American accent.
It varied Sir Robert was from the ruling class. The workers had the Aussie accent. Especially in the
Country side.
@@adrianjackson2696 like it or not mate it’s a British accent….
Had churchill poisoned slowly so he could be lord warden of the cinque ports
HE WAS A HERO.
Yes, he was a good prime minister, but also a lucky prime minister being in office during stable economic times. He was also a politician and 1954 was probably the greatest re election stunt ever with the possible exception of the Tampa in 2001.
"Sentimental ties are not to be dismissed as not practical." In agreement.
God Bless.
Any relation?
@@thonks8729 all
He wanted to be English not Australian
😂😂
English= Australia so ha ha ha
@@Matty-n4c dumb
Comparing Robert Menzies and the government he led, and its policies with Scott Morrison and his government and the Liberal Party of today, which has deserted the centre and embraced right-wing extremism, I have no doubt Menzies would be horrified, and express utter condemnation.
What on earth are you on about
Right wing extremism 🤣🤣🤣???? What rock are you living under??? It is literally the opposite.
@@MothyEmms Robert Menzies said in his 'Forgotten People' address on radio on May 22, 1942, 'The rich can look after themselves'. He identified the suburban family as the heart of the nation, and established that the suburban family should be the basis of government policy.
During his sixteen years as Prime Minister, real wages rose, there was prosperity shared by everyone, and the national debt, which had reached 120% of GDP because of the war, was steadily paid down.
Compare that with the Liberal governments since 2013: Wage stagnation, tax cuts overwhelmingly benefitting the rich, and the national debt growing from $257 Billion in 2013 to $853 Billion as at November 2021, and headed for over $1 Trillion soon. Which would you choose?
After his retirement, the Liberal party drifted away from the character it had under Menzies, and in 1974, he commented privately, 'The idiots now running the Liberal Party will drive me round the bend'. He believed that salvation for the Liberal Party would only come when Malcolm Fraser became leader. But Fraser and his government were a disappointment to Menzies during the remaining two and a half years of his life.
Inflation in the USA is now at a 40-year high, because of the program of 'Quantitative easing', which is a euphemism for the Federal Reserve buying US Treasury bonds, because no one else wants to. But that creates money, because the Fed simply writes a cheque on the credit of the United States, which the Treasury deposits in a bank, which can then make loans using this credit. This is completely contrary to the Fed's main mission, of controlling the money supply, to make sure it matches the total value of goods and services in the economy. Quantitative easing causes a lot of extra money to flood the economy, causing inflation.
I was shocked to learn on the ABC news finance report, by Alan Kohler, that the Reserve Bank has been doing the same thing here, and that will be the reason inflation is rising here too.
If Robert Menzies was alive to see this, he would say, 'The incompetent idiots now running the Liberal Government will drive me round the bend'. How does that make you feel?
Embraced right wing extremism??? 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
His bastard spawn of course were Howard and Abbott.
abbott & howard have actually followed the policies of whitlam.the pair may worship Menzies but policy wise nothing in common.
How true what's new amongst the liberals??
@@hedylamarr1637 Correct 120%
@@hedylamarr1637 menzies kept the ipa in check and didn't became an absolute atlasnetwork baitch
@@hedylamarr1637 except the rascism