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Robert Menzies fostered Australia’s love of home ownership, but the romance is souring

  • Written by: Frank Bongiorno, Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre for Public Ideas, University of Canberra

“Australia is the small house,” the architect Robin Boyd reflected in his book Australia’s Home in 1952. “Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage”.

Yet when Robert Menzies retired as prime minister in 1966, the rapid rise of home ownership...

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