Download or read book John Curtin War Time Prime Minister written by Peter Nethercote and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broadcast by the Prime Minister of Australia Mr John Curtin Over the N B C Network 7 30 P m eastern War Time April 26 1944 written by John Curtin and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Backroom Briefings written by Frederick T. Smith and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backroom Briefings shows a Prime Minister acute in analysis, vigorous in language and confident of his decisions—a unique insight into the qualities and style of a man whose political career and prime ministership have, until now, been poorly documented.
Download or read book Curtin s Empire written by James Curran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the story behind the leader, John Curtin, whose vision, until now, has been overlooked.
Download or read book John Curtin written by Lloyd Ross and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd Ross sums up the character of the wartime Labor Prime Minister who fought Churchill to bring back Australian troops from Europe to defend his nation: "Curtin was a complex character. Warm and sympathetic, but cold and aloof; a comrade but a loner; a rebel and anti-conscriptionist but Prime Minister. Moody; irritable; uncertain; changeable; vacillating; temperamental; opportunist; sentimental; courageous; all are true of Curtin."
Download or read book Good for the Soul written by Toby Davidson and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first days as Prime Minister, John Curtin presented himself to the press as a self-styled intellectual who loved sport and relaxing, when he could, with a book, beach walk, game of cards or fossick in the garden. He also revealed that he enjoyed poetry so much that he held to a Sunday night poetry ritual. Curtin was Australia's third wartime Prime Minister, Labor's eighth Prime Minister, and the first Prime Minister from a Western Australian electorate. 'Toby Davidson reveals a new perspective on John Curtin: the poetry of his times, and the poems he himself read. As Davidson shows, Curtin's poetry reading and his reflections upon it influenced his thoughts and language from his socialist youth to the last days of his leadership of a nation transformed by global peril. Good for the Soul: John Curtin's Life with Poetry is a unique, patiently researched and fascinating re-evaluation of Australia's revered wartime Prime Minister.' – John Edwards, author of John Curtin's War Volume I & II 'A stunningly comprehensive account which shows a side of John Curtin we have only glimpsed before. Davidson skilfully traces how poetry was Curtin's companion and ally from his humble beginnings in rural Victoria to his death in office in 1945, two months before the end of World War II.' – Professor David Black, editor of In His Own Words: John Curtin's Speeches and Writings and Friendship is a Sheltering Tree: John Curtin's Letters 1907 to 1945.
Download or read book John Curtin written by David Day and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Day has written a biography of one of Australia's best remembered leaders. He explores not only the political persona but also the man in this intriguing book. He looks at the demons and weaknesses that drove and shaped the man, that also through Curtin, shaped modern Australia. John Curtin was the Labor Prime Minister from 1941 - 45. It was during these turbulent times of history that Curtin decided to look no longer to Britain for assistance but to turn instead to America. It was decisions like this that has shaped Australian policy and even reflects current foreign policy. It makes this biography relevant, even in the modern political climate.
Download or read book John Curtin written by David Lee and published by . This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed by many as Australia's greatest prime minister, John Curtin overcame alcoholism and a troubled relationship with the Scullin Labour Government to win the Labor leadership by one vote in October 1935. Rescuing the Labor Party from division and humiliating defeats in 1931 and 1934, he put it in a position to win in the years after 1937. A constructive wartime Leader of the Opposition, he engineered the creation of an Advisory War Council to help minority Coalition and Labor governments manage a divided House of Representatives. From October 1941 he steered his wartime Labor Government through perhaps the greatest strategic challenge that Australia has ever faced. In doing so, he led Labor to one of its most emphatic electoral victories in 1943 and put his party in a position to enshrine long-held aspirations such as national control of banking and provision for a welfare state. His death in July 1945 was met with a national outpouring of grief that underlined the extent to which Curtin had been recognised as a national leader above party. David Lee is Associate Professor in History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra. He was General Editor of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series from 1997 to 2019. His publications include Australia and the World in the Twentieth Century (2005), Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist (2010) and The Second Rush: Mining and the Transformation of Australia (2016).
Download or read book John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The JCPML has been established to honour the contribution to Australia of its wartime Prime Minister and international statesman, John Curtin. Through this site, researchers, teachers, students and community members can access information relating to John Curtin and his life and times held in the collections of the JCPML and elsewhere.
Download or read book Australia s Boldest Experiment written by Stuart Macintyre and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted – work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing – are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.
Download or read book John Curtin written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Curtin s Legacy written by David Day and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume of six essays about former Australian Prime Minister John Curtin. Contributors include Gough Whitlam, Hazel Hawke, Geoffrey Serle, David Day and Michelle Grattan. Also includes newspaper excerpts by John Curtin during the time he was editor of the 'Westralian Worker' (1917-28). Foreword by Professor David Black, Historical Consultant to the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library.
Download or read book John Curtin written by David Day and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2006 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical biography of Australia's best-remembered leader examines his importance as the first prime minister, to encourage a sense of Australian nationalism. A Labor prime minister from 1941- 1945, he decided to no longer look to Britain for assistance, but to turn instead, to America.
Download or read book Records of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library written by John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library (Perth, W.A.). and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These records comprise: Interviews conducted for J S Battye Library and JCPML; Literary works making reference to John Curtin; Photographs of John Curtin's personal possessions; Interviews conducted for JCPML; Theses relevant to the life & times of John Curtin; JCPML Public Lectures; A Prime Minister and His People; Photographs of oral history interviewees; John Curtin: Australia's Wartime Prime Minister; John Curtin Memorial Lectures. Web publications; Occasional papers published by JCPML; Oral histories relating to John Curtin; Journal articles relating to John Curtin; John Curtin's Legacy; Dramatic works commissioned by the JCPML; John Curtin: a Man of Peace, a Time of War. Exhibition items; Shaping the Nation: John Curtin and Australia. Exhibition; Guides to collections prepared for JCPML; Promotional Items produced by JCPML; John Curtin's House, 24 Jarrad Street, Cottesloe WA; Web publications by JCPML; John Curtin's Legacy: leading Australia from war to peace. Exhibition 2002; Without Classification: Hazel Hawke; Journal articles by or relating to Tom Fitzgerald; JCPML Public Seminars; Audio visual resources collected by the JCPML; Reports, plans and other records relating to the Curtin house at 24 Jarrad Street, Cottesloe; Artworks collected by the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library; Publications collected by the JCPML; Photographs collected by the JCPML; Interviews conducted for the Vice-Chancellory, Curtin University of Technology; Commemorative items produced by or on behalf of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library; The Art of the Possible: creating an independent Australian foreign policy. Exhibition; Indexes compiled by the JCPML.
Download or read book Friendship is a Sheltering Tree written by David Black and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned WA historian and political analyst has collected and written commentary on Australia's wartime Prime Minister; these letters are to Curtins wife and family, friends and colleagues for nearly 40 years; the personal and the political are blended here to present the whole man; WA and Australian history.
Download or read book Good the Bad and the Unlikely written by Mungo MacCallum and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate challenge of wartime leadership. John Gorton, Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating each shook up their parties' policies so vigorously that none lasted much longer than a single term. Harold Holt spent three decades in parliament, only to disappear while swimming off the coast of Victoria just under two years into his first term. John Howard's "triple bypass" is the stuff of legend. Julia Gillard overthrew Kevin Rudd and Kevin Rudd overthrew Julia Gillard, thus paving the way for Tony Abbott, who was ousted by Malcolm Turnbull - until he too was toppled, this time by Scott Morrison. With characteristic wit and expert knowledge, Mungo MacCallum brings the nation's leaders to life in this updated edition of a classic book.
Download or read book Churchill and Australia written by Graham Freudenberg and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities-his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his refusal to 'give way, in things great or small, large or petty', the power of his imagination to set grim reality at defiance, his mastery of the English language-that made Winston Churchill, as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin described him, 'the saviour of his country, the largest human being of his time'." Winston Churchill was a titan of the 20th Century, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders of his age. Yet his relationship with Australia was a fraught one, tainted by the military failure of the Gallipoli campaign in the First War, and the disaster of Singapore in the Second. Churchill the patrician, descendant of dukes, could not appreciate Australia's dearly held egalitarianism, while Churchill the imperial statesman was impatient, and at times intolerant, of Australia's growing urge towards independence. The relationship between the two would span the first 50 tumultuous years of the 20th Century, from the Boer War through to opening salvoes of the Cold War, and act as a fascinating backdrop to Australia's maturity from a collection of autonomous colonies to full nationhood. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, and relying on exhaustive research and a true insider's knowledge of the political world, this is history written at its compelling best. Winner of the Walkley Award for Non-fiction 2008
