Evatt alleged that this denial was this result of judicial bias towards the Menzies government.

Following the election of the Menzies government at the 1949 election, he led the Country Party in the Senate.

He was Minister for Health in the Menzies government from 1956 to 1961.

This Cold War scare was claimed by some to enable the Menzies government to win the election.

The Menzies government won 64 of 121 seats and 49.3 percent of the two-party vote.

The new party directed its preferences to the Liberals, with the Menzies government re-elected with an increased majority at the 1955 election.

At the 1961 election the Menzies government narrowly retained government with 62 of 122 seats and a two-party vote of 49.5 percent.

A further blow came in 1959, when the Menzies government decided to amalgamate it with the Canberra College.

Hayden's win was part of a 15-seat swing to Labor that nearly brought down the Menzies government.

In 1951 the Menzies government passed a law banning the Communist Party of Australia.