Menzies’s two terms of government delivered widespread prosperity and a flourishing economy for Australians. Key aspects of the Menzies legacy include:

• Improvement of living standards and a dramatic rise in the level of consumer goods per head (cars, radios etc).

• Rise in home ownership from a little over 50% to around 75% of the population in a decade;

• Great progress in industry, manufacturing output, primary industry production and mineral development;

• Australia achieved a position in the world's top ten trading nations;

• Instigation of some of the major treaties including South East Asian Treaty Organisation, ANZUS, the Commerce Agreement with Japan, along with close co-operation with the Commonwealth and other allies;

• Consistent spending on defence programmes;

• The arrival of 1 million immigrants in ten years;

• Introduction of a succession of social security measures such as creating the Pensioner Medical and Free Medicines Service;

• Expansion of support for education programs;

• Established Commonwealth Scholarships and the introduction of Commonwealth scholarships for secondary schools as means of introducing State Aid to all schools.

• Introduction of needed improvements such as the national divorce laws;

• Child endowment introduced for the first child;

• Free medical treatment for pensioners and dependants;

• Free milk to school children;

• Abolished land and entertainment tax;

• Introduced Medical Benefits Scheme, and introduce free life-saving drugs for needy;

• Promoter of Columbo Plan assisting South East Asian nations;

• Reciprocity in social security with United Kingdom;

• Encouraged growth of Canberra as a national capital;

• Introduced Homes for Aged Scheme;

• Introduced capital grants to mental hospitals and aid for teaching hospitals;

• Tax deductions introduced for school fees and allied expenditure;

• Introduced National Health Scheme based on self-help, providing cover for all citizens;

• Completed rail standardisation Sydney to Melbourne and funded other standardisation works;

• Completed dams including Blowering;

• Tax concessions introduced for married pensioners;

• Development of beef roads scheme to develop the inland;

• Special grants introduced for anti-tuberculosis campaigns;

• Introduced Department of Housing, Home Savings Grants Scheme and Housing Loans Insurance Corporation to help more Australians own their own home;

• Establishment of sheltered workshops;

• Introduced Aged Pensioners Home Assistance Scheme;

• Introduced invalid pensions;

• Established Australian Universities Commission.