Question: What years did Robert Menzies serve as Prime Minister?
Answer: 1939 to 1941

Question: To what are Menzies' "Forgotten People" radio talks compared to?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt's "fireside chats"

Question: How did Roosevelt refer to the middle class?
Answer: "backbone of Australia"

Question: Was the meeting at Canberra a group of people supporting or opposed to the Australian Labor Party?
Answer: opposed

Question: Where was the second anti-Labor Party held in 1944?
Answer: Albury, New South Wales

Question: Where was the formation of the Liberal party officially announced?
Answer: Sydney Town Hall

Question: Where did the name "Liberal" come from?
Answer: in honour of the old Commonwealth Liberal Party

Question: What was the name of the Liberal Party's youth division?
Answer: Young Liberals

Question: How many members were in the Young Liberals by Sept 1945?
Answer: more than 90,000

Question: How many years did the Liberals stay in office after the 1949 election?
Answer: a record 23 years

Question: What promises did Menzies make in the 1949 election?
Answer: end rationing of butter, tea and petrol and provided a five-shilling endowment for first-born children

Question: During what period did Australia experience long-term economic growth?
Answer: the post-war boom period of the Menzies Government (1949–1966)

Question: What was a key political topic in the 1950s and 1960s?
Answer: Anti-communism

Question: What actions showed Menzies' anti-Communist beliefs?
Answer: committed troops to the Korean War and attempted to ban the Communist Party of Australia in an unsuccessful referendum during the course of that war

Question: Over what did the Labor party divide?
Answer: concerns about the influence of the Communist Party over the Trade Union movement,

Question: Which treaty was Australia's first military alliance outside of the British Commonwealth?
Answer: ANZUS Treaty

Question: Which areas were involved in the ANZUS Treaty?
Answer: Australia, New Zealand and the United States

Question: What does the acronym SEATO stand for?
Answer: South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty

Question: Which group is a counterpart to NATO?
Answer: the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty (SEATO)

Question: Where was the signing of the ANZUS Treaty held in 1951?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: What did the Immigration Act's entry permit system include?
Answer: economic and skills criteria

Question: Which ruling allowed indigenous Australians the right to vote?
Answer: Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act

Question: Who was the first women to serve on the Australian Cabinet?
Answer: Dame Enid Lyons

Question: Government under whom experienced the conversion to decimal currency?
Answer: Holt

Question: Which of Holt's stances received some public opposition?
Answer: commitment to the growing War in Vietnam

Question: Which Referendum allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted in the Census?
Answer: 1967 Referendum

Question: What overhelming percent of Australians voted for the 1967 Referendum?
Answer: 90%

Question: Which government put an emphasis in supporting the arts?
Answer: The Gorton Government

Question: Which government established equal pay for men and women?
Answer: The Gorton Government

Question: What year did the Gorton Government stop replacing troups in Vietnam?
Answer: end of 1970

Question: Which continent did Gorton wish to pursue closer ties with?
Answer: Asia

Question: Who commented that Gorton was not fit to be Prime Minister?
Answer: Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser

Question: Was Gorton impeached, voted out, or did he resign?
Answer: he resigned

Question: Which countries did Gorton maintain close relationships with?
Answer: United States and Britain

Question: Who became the first indigenous Austrailian in Parliament?
Answer: Neville Bonner

Question: How long did Bonner serve as a Liberal Senator?
Answer: 12 years

Question: How was Bonner appointed his position?
Answer: chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate vacancy in 1971

Question: On what day did the 1975 constitutional crisis deadlock end?
Answer: 11 November 1975

Question: How did the gridlock between Whitlam and Fraser end?
Answer: the Whitlam government was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr

Question: Who won the 1975 election by large margin?
Answer: Fraser

Question: Which document allowed Indigenous peoples the right to some traditional lands?
Answer: Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976

Question: What environmental consequence affected the Australian economy by 1983?
Answer: a severe drought

Question: Which party did Don Chipp seperate to form in 1977?
Answer: Australian Democrats

Question: Who did Frazer eventually lose to in 1983?
Answer: Bob Hawke

Question: How was Howard different from Paul Keating?
Answer: he supported traditional Australian institutions like the Monarchy in Australia, the commemoration of ANZAC Day and the design of the Australian flag

Question: In what ways was Howard similar to Paul Keating?
Answer: pursued privatisation of public utilities and the introduction of a broad based consumption tax

Question: Which government supported the US's war Afghanistan and Iraq?
Answer: The Howard Government

Question: Under what agreement did the Australian government support the US?
Answer: the ANZUS treaty

Question: Which parties merged in Queensland in 2008 to form the new Liberal National Party of Queensland?
Answer: the Liberal and National parties

Question: In March 2012, which party won by an historic landslide?
Answer: the new Liberal National Party of Queensland

Question: Who led the new Liberal National Party of Queensland through the election in March 2012?
Answer: former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman

Question: How close was the race betwen Turnbull and Abbott in 2009?
Answer: 42 votes to 41

Question: Who was elected to the Parliamentary Liberal Party after the 2007 Federal Election?
Answer: Dr Brendan Nelson

Question: To whom did Nelson lose the party to in 2008?
Answer: Malcolm Turnbull

Question: Who is the Australian Liberal Party's leader?
Answer: Malcolm Turnbull

Question: Who was Turnbull elected to replace?
Answer: Tony Abbott

Question: Who is the Australian Party's deputy leader?
Answer: Julie Bishop

Question: What was the former name of the Turnbull Government?
Answer: the Abbott Government

Question: Who was the first indigenous Australian elected to the House?
Answer: Ken Wyatt

Question: In what year was the first indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives?
Answer: 2010

Question: In what year was the first Aboriginal Senator elected?
Answer: 1971

Question: How many state divisions exist in the Liberal Party's organisation?
Answer: six

Question: Which politician purposely created strong state divisions to a weaker national party?
Answer: Menzies

Question: Who makes party policy?
Answer: almost entirely by the parliamentary parties, not by the party's rank-and-file members

Question: Was Menzies for or against nationalizing the banking system in Australia?
Answer: strongly against

Question: What helped the Liberals to victory in December 1955?
Answer: the formation of the anti-Communist Democratic Labor Party (DLP) and the consequent split in the Australian Labor Party early in 1955

Question: When did Menzies resign from Parliament?
Answer: 26 January 1966

Question: Which two title holders fought for political power in the early 1990s?
Answer: former Treasurer John Howard competing with former Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock

Question: What was the Australian unemployment rate in 1992?
Answer: 11.4%

Question: What discussion proved an example of the difficulty of explaining what foods were and were not included in the Goods and Services Tax?
Answer: the infamous birthday cake interview

Question: How long was Tom Playford in political power?
Answer: from the 1933 election to the 1965 election