Liberal Party founder Robert Menzies’ creed of Australian liberalism was informed by the ideas of three thinkers from Victorian Britain.

Buried away in the correspondence columns of last week’s Sunday Age, a former history teacher’s letter “Where’s our history?” started an intense and confused debate about a “threat” by the national curriculum to Australian history in schools.

Despite being under constant siege, today’s nation of Israel is home to an ancient Hebrew culture to which Judaism, Christianity and Western civilisation owe an incalculable debt, writes David Furse-Roberts.

To Robert Menzies, freedom of worship and religion was a pillar of his own Liberal philosophy, as well as a fruit of his religious faith.

Australia’s political stability, social peace, and economic prosperity grew from deep roots in a British heritage.