True Believers: Nick Cater, Freya Leach, Georgina Downer

Menzies Research Centre

With Nick Cater, Freya Leach and Georgina Downer.

In this special series of Watercooler podcasts, we’re attempting something big: to define the values that unite Australian Liberals in the 21st century.

The True Believers podcasts are a forum for free-ranging discussion that we hope will promote a wider conversation about the things we really believe in - the ties that bind us as a political movement - and the principles from which we can develop policy.

Our starting point is the We Believe statement issued by Robert Menzies in 1954 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Liberal Party of Australia. The 17 points express inspiring values and principles, but in language that may sound strange to some Australians today.

Each podcast will focus on a different point as we attempt to delve below the surface to identify the Liberal values that underpin it. And we'll be asking if it is possible to compose a similar statement today, one expressing the beliefs to which every Liberal can subscribe.

Read the 1954 We Believe Statement: https://www.menziesrc.org/we-believe

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Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and a former executive director. He is a columnist with The Australian and the presenter of Battleground on ADH TV.

Frey Leach is a research fellow at Menzies Research Centre

Georgina Downer is executive director of the Robert Menzies Institute, a joint venture between the Menzies Research Centre and the University of Melbourne.