There is no audible ceremony on Menzies’s arrival in the room, just a short introduction by another speaker. Menzies settles at the microphone and we hear a faint rustle of his papers.

A glass slide promoting Robert Menzies for election as prime minister with caption `Which leader for Australia?' and the name of his political opponent, Labor Party leader HV Evatt, crossed ou

This is a segment from the Parliamentary debate in 1965 concerning Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.