ALIA West

March 2006

John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library launches new web resource

The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library invites you to visit their new web resource, published in collaboration with the Menzies Foundation - Menzies and Curtin in World War Two: A comparative essay by David Black.

Robert Menzies and John Curtin were very different in personality, style and philosophy and faced different scenarios in their terms as Prime Ministers of Australia in World War Two. This essay compares the two leaders in four key areas: running the war effort; defining Australia's place on the world stage; dealing with party politics, elections and the press; and visions for Australia. In addition, nine eminent historians provide contemporary perspectives on the two men as wartime leaders. A variety of photographs, cartoons, documents and film and audio clips accompany the resource.