Bob Menzies was born in a tiny tiny town in the boonies, he spent his early childhood there-and his family owned the local shop.
Compare that to the mob in the Liberal party in the last decades --
Whilst being born and early days in the boonies can be highly insulative - it does ground one in a reality that one just doesn't get when born in Sydney or Melboure
it's easy for people born in Toorak to just be unaware of how millions of others live
