Sir Robert (Bob) Menzies, the 12th and longest serving Prime Minister of Australia, once said, “Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.” However Menzies’ place in posterity has since been assured, and all of his many speeches to parliament will soon be just a click away to all Internet users at the completion of a massive project by The SEMA Group to digitise all pre-1980 Hansard documents.
