Power Shift

1975–1996 History does not change overnight. It changes one generation at a time. For the first generation, the war never truly ends. Captain Felix Nicholson , a veteran of the Second World War, has spent three decades living in the long shadow of the Ridge. Once an infantry captain, he now finds himself in a slow, final retreat, as the post-war horizon that defined his life begins to fade. Beside...

In the aftermath of war, the Nicholsons believed the promise. They reached for what Robert Menzies once described as a horizon worth building toward: security earned, families protected, and a nation shaped by duty, restraint, and steady progress. For Felix and Peggy Nicholson, this was not ideology but architecture—marriage, children, mortgages, church halls, branch meetings, and a quiet faith th...

Chart the history of the liberals and their relationship with the youth of Gen X and the rise of Howard.

Episode 1 begins in 1945 , at the moment the Liberal Party of Australia was formed in the shadow of war, reconstruction, and social upheaval. It explores how a party founded in the name of The Forgotten People initially spoke not only to families and small business owners, but to the aspirations of a rising post-war generation. In the three decades that followed, young Australians benefited from e...

From Nareen to Now (Part 1) traces a single, unsettling journey: the passage of a leader shaped by authority, hierarchy, and constitutional duty through a Liberal Party that now appears structured to resist those very qualities. The essay begins at Nareen, not as nostalgia, but as origin. The values forged in land, stewardship, and responsibility are carried forward into an electorate that no long...