In his forgotten people radio speech on the 22nd of May, 1942, Robert Menzies said:

“I do not believe that the real life of this nation is to be found either in great luxury hotels and the petty gossip of so-called fashionable suburbs, or in the officialdom of organized masses. It is to be found in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction or dogma, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of their race. The home is the foundation of sanity and sobriety; it is the indispensable condition of continuity; its health determines the health of society as a whole …………

The material home represents the concrete expression of the habits of frugality and saving “for a home of our own”. Your advanced socialist may rage against private property even while he acquires it; but one of the best instincts in us is that which induces us to have one little piece of earth with a house and a garden which is ours: to which we can withdraw, in which we can be among our friends, into which no stranger may come against our will.”

Chris Crewther is the current Liberal for Mornington in the same State Parliament in which Robert Menzies served as Deputy Premier, Attorney-General  and Minister for the Railways from May 1932 until July 1934.

Chris restates the Menzies doctrine on homes perfectly for the modern era:

Robert Gordon Menzies.

Christopher John Crewther.

Home is everything.

Geoff Fox, July 29, 2025, Kew, Victoria, Australia