Australians are known for their obsession with sport and John Curtin shared this national passion, both as a participant and as a spectator. Images, letters, newspaper cuttings, video and audio clips combine to tell the story of the prime minister well regarded as fairest and best.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

John Curtin was the Labor prime minister who led Australia through the darkest hours of World War II. He was the poor country boy who rose to become prime minister, the revolutionary young socialist turned political pragmatist, the pacifist called upon to lead Australia during wartime.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

This selection of about 500 letters documents the relationship between Prime Minister John Curtin and the general public during the years 1941-1945 . A joint project between the National Archives of Australia and the JCPML
[National Archives of Australia, The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

This online exhibition reflects a current display in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Challenge Bank Reading Room and tells the story of Curtin's life from his early days to his time as Prime Minister.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

John Curtin is best remembered as the prime minister who led Australia through the dark days of World War II. However, before entering parliament, and for a few years in the early nineteen thirties, John Curtin earned all or part of his livelihood as a journalist.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

Comic postcards provide a fascinating insight into Australian values and attitudes during the first half of this century. This colourful exhibition is available to be viewed online.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This online exhibition commemorates one of Brisbane's most influential art galleries throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Artists connected to the Johnstone form an impressive list of the best Australian artists of that generation - Charles Blackman, Sir Sidney Nolan, Donald Friend, Arthur Boyd, Ray Crooke, Margaret Olley, Lawrence Daws and Robert Dickerson. Its founders, Brian and Marjorie Johnstone, operated the gallery for 22 years and its closure in 1972 marked an end of an era. Marjorie Johnstone bequeathed the Johnstone Gallery Archive to the State Library of Queensland.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]