Tag: David Day

John Curtin’s Letter of Inspiration

John Curtin and US General Douglas MacArthur meet at Parliament House on 26 March 1942. NAA: A1200, L36449 This is a letter sent to John Curtin by Chris Bennett in 1915 (President Trades Hall Council) quoted in David Day’s biography of John Curtin that I find inspirational…(p.213). …keep your pecker up and continue to fight…
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November 13, 2003

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History is for the Living

David Day I am on my second Labor Biography at the moment being David Day’s biography of John Curtin. It is hard for my generation to imagine any Australian leader coming out of the Socialist left and also coming from Victoria. I wonder what John Curtin would have thought about globalisation and the Internet? The…
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November 12, 2003

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