Help Us to Inspire a New Generation

Make a tax deductible donation to the Robert Menzies Institute today.

Together, we can inspire a new generation to be bold, creative, and optimistic about our future, valuing debate and critical thinking in this vibrant liberal democracy in which we live.

Click here to see the impact of the support we have received over the past year.

Ways to donate:

To avoid transaction fees on larger donations, please make payment via Bank Transfer.

  1. Online secure donation via the online form

  2. By direct deposit to bank account:

    Robert Menzies Institute Ltd

    BSB: 083 004

    Account No: 88 084 8770

  3. By calling us on (03) 8344 3411 and we can accept by phone.

With Your Support

  • We can develop further resources for teacher and student learning

    This will include:

    • Further expanding our curriculum resource materials.

    • The creation of a detailed teacher training program.

    • A curriculum-based school visitation program including student lectures and historical skills workshops.

  • We can encourage students to follow in Menzies’s footsteps

    The Robert Menzies Institute Speech Competition is a program for secondary students in Australia to practice oratorical skills in a speech relating to Sir Robert Menzies. Our competition celebrates the oratorical skills of Sir Robert Menzies.

  • We can preserve the Menzies Collection for furture generations

    A conservation assessment of the Menzies Collection of over 4500 books and documents revealed that 55% of the Collection requires interventive conservation and 10% of the Collection requires major conservation work.

  • We can digitise the Menzies Collection

    Digitisation of the Menzies Collection of over 4500 items will provide access for the first time to people form all walks of life to this unique historical artefact. Digitisation will involve scanning images of every inscription, as well as the detailed highlights and annotations to ensure these fragile and ageing documents are preserved for future generations.

  • A new generation can learn how and why Australia chose liberalism over socialism

    With your support, the Robert Menzies Institute will commision a lively and engaging book on the year 1949, the events and issues leading up to the December election.

  • We can commemorate 80 years since the founding of the Liberal Party

    2024 will mark 80 years since the founding of the Libral Party. To commeorate the occasion the Institute will assemble an innovative new book exploring organisations that Menzies brought together to form the party. We will also organise a touring exhibition that addresses the questions of why the party was founded.

Donor Charter

The Robert Menzies Institute celebrates the important role of philanthropy at the Institute and is committed to outstanding levels of donor stewardship and ensuring that donors have fulfilling experiences when supporting the Institute. We will implement gifts as agreed with a donor and seek to create meaningful opportunities to nurture a donor’s lifelong relationship with the institution, while providing accurate and timely information pertaining to the investment, use and impact of their gifts.

The Institute makes the following Commitments to Donors:

To be transparent, informative and professional

  • A donor can expect to be informed of the Institute's mission, the way the Institute intends to use the gift and the identity of key personnel involved in managing the gift.

  • Individuals representing the Institute will act in a professional manner, and will inform prospective donors if they are volunteers, students or Institute staff.

  • No program, agreement, trust or contract will be pursued with potential donors at the expense of the donor’s best interests and motivations.

  • The Institute and its staff will actively and positively provide relevant information on the Institute, and the use of, and progress with, the gift.

To respect the privacy of donors

  • Donors’ details will be treated confidentially and will not be shared with any organisation outside the Institute for their own purposes without express permission.

  • Requests for anonymity will be respected, honoured and confidentially enacted.

To use gifts effectively and ethically in line with donor wishes

  • The Institute is committed to ensuring that philanthropic gifts are managed in an efficient, effective and ethical manner for their intended purposes.

  • Should it become impractical or impossible to carry out the expressed purpose(s), or where the Institute reasonably believes that the original expressed wishes are no longer a suitable and effective means of using the gift, the Institute will communicate with the donor or the donor’s nominated representative.

  • As part of our commitment to responsible management and oversight of philanthropic gifts, the Institute’s Board has oversight of how the Institute receives, tracks and applies gifts based on the wishes expressed by donors.

To acknowledge and recognise donors and celebrate philanthropy

  • All donors will receive an official receipt, and appropriate acknowledgement, recognition and publicity.