The government depended on support from two independents, who two months later voted against Fadden's budget and brought the government down, paving the way for John Curtin to be appointed as Labor prime minister.

Fadden's government was defeated in Parliament later in 1941 after the two independent MPs crossed the floor, allowing Curtin to form a Labor minority government.

He moved to Perth, Western Australia with his family when he was seven, where he later studied film and television arts at Curtin University.

Fremantle is a safe Labor seat which had once been held by Labor Prime Minister John Curtin, and later, Whitlam-era Education Minister Kim Beazley senior.

Bishop won pre-selection for the Liberal Party for the seat of Curtin, Western Australia in 1998, and went on to win the seat at the federal election later that year against the sitting member and former Liberal turned independent, Allan Rocher, who had held the seat since 1981.

Curtin married Miriam McGillicuddy, a solicitor and later mayor of Tralee.

VAI later released several Bell Telephone Hour DVDs featuring Curtin.

When Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary was replaced a few months later, Curtin was consulted, and concurred with the change.

In 1973, he became a cadet research officer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Canberra, being promoted to senior research officer before returning to Perth in 1975 to become a lecturer in Economics at the Western Australian Institute of Technology ( later renamed Curtin University of Technology ).

He was defeated in 1931 by the Lang follower and later Deputy Leader of Australian Labor Party ( Non-Communist ) Sol Rosevear, who was Speaker during the Curtin and Chifley governments.

He then completed a Bachelor of Social Work ( Distinction ) at Curtin University, Western Australia ( 1982 ) and later obtained a Master of Arts ( Public Policy ) at Murdoch University, Western Australia ( 1991 ).

From the late 1970s, she taught writing at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, later Curtin University, and one of her students was another Australian novelist, Tim Winton.

The actions of the Japanese POWs in storming machine gun posts, armed only with improvised weapons, showed what Australian Prime Minister John Curtin later described as a " suicidal disregard of life ".

Born in Western Australia, she did her undergraduate studies at Curtin University in Perth and later studied a Postgraduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland.

In 1960-1961, two large retirement housing complexes, Bentley Park ( formerly Swan Cottage Homes ) and Rowethorpe Homes, were built in the suburb's west and West Australian Institute of Technology ( WAIT, later Curtin University was opened in 1967.

The Coneheads is a sketch on Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) which originated on the January 15, 1977, episode, and starred Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie.

She starred in the series from 1996 to 2001 along with John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the role earned her two Emmy Awards for best supporting actress in a comedy series.

She starred alongside John Ritter and Valerie Curtin.

The series ' theme song, by composer Hoyt Curtin, became a pop hit in 1986.

Most Hanna-Barbera series through 1985 had original theme music by Hoyt Curtin, with lyrics ( when used ) by Hanna and Barbera themselves.

The studio's first original scores were written by Curtin for a short-lived theatrical cartoon series, Loopy De Loop, distributed by Columbia Pictures.

These scores were re-edited to form the nucleus of an original music library, to which Curtin added new themes with each subsequent series.

For Jonny Quest, Curtin adopted a big band " crime jazz " musical style ; these themes were re-used in many other adventure-type series that followed.

Curtin has also appeared in many movie roles, including Charlene in the The Librarian series of movies ( 2004 – 2008 ).

* In the 1984 mini series The Last Bastion, Curtin was portrayed by Michael Blakemore.

Winkless is credited as co-writer, along with Hoyt Curtin, of " The Beautiful Calliope " ( also called " My Beautiful Calliopesaxaviatrumparimbaclaribassotrombaphone "), which was featured several times in the television series and also issued on record.

Winkless composed some of the memorable Kellogg's cereal jingles, including the " Snap, Crackle, Pop Fugue " and " The best to you each morning ", and also co-wrote ( with Hoyt Curtin ) " The Beautiful Calliopa ", a song used on the series.

After other film ventures failed to establish her, she returned to television, appearing in the comedy series Kate & Allie opposite Jane Curtin from 1984 until 1989.

As professor Emeritus at Boston University's Opera Institute, Curtin continues to teach a series of masterclasses at the school each semester.

Beginning in 1959, Curtin also composed many of the stock tunes used as incidental music in the various Hanna-Barbera series.

Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942.

A lecture theatre at Curtin University is named after her and since 1991 the University has held an annual lecture series in her name.

* Dr. Mary Albright, played by Jane Curtin on 3rd Rock from the Sun

She is a cousin of TV comedian / actress Jane Curtin ( Saturday Night Live, Kate & Allie, Third Rock from the Sun ).

On May 30, 1945, The Australian Labor Party Prime Minister John Curtin and his Employment Minister John Dedman proposed a white paper in the Australian House of Representatives titled Full Employment In Australia, the first time any government apart from totalitarian regimes had unequivocally committed itself to providing work for any person who was willing and able to work.

Hoyt Curtin retired circa 1986 and his successors moved away from his jazz-oriented style to concentrate more on synthesized music.

The North American premiere was at Tanglewood, with Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra with soloists Phyllis Curtin, Nicholas Di Virgilio, Tom Krause and choruses from Chorus Pro Musica and the Columbus Boychoir, featuring boy soprano Thomas Friedman ..

Meade was promoted from captain to brigadier general of volunteers on August 31, 1861, a few months after the start of the Civil War, based on the strong recommendation of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin.

The independents, under prodding from Governor-General Lord Gowrie, then threw their support to Opposition Leader John Curtin, who was sworn in as Prime Minister on 7 October 1941.

In February 1944 the UAP withdrew its members from the Advisory War Council in protest against the Curtin government.

Labor under Curtin formed a minority government in 1941 after the crossbench consisting of two independent MPs crossed the floor in the House of Representatives, bringing down the Coalition minority government of Robert Menzies which resulted from the 1940 election – aside from the formulative early parliaments, the only other hung parliament has resulted from the 2010 election.

On 26 December, the Melbourne Herald published a New Year's message from Curtin, who wrote:

MacArthur said of Curtin that " the preservation of Australia from invasion will be his immemorial monument ".

Returning to the newspapers ( from which he had agreed to distance himself while serving the Government ) he spent the rest of the war encouraging a patriotic spirit, and attacking the Labor Prime Minister, John Curtin ( who led a minority government in 1941, and was re-elected with a dramatic majority in 1943 ).

Jane Curtin anchored Weekend Update from 1976 to 1980.

She tutored at the University of Melbourne in 1971 and 1972, tutored and lectured at Curtin University from 1973 to 1978 and was a lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Australia from 1979 until 1983.

With Fire and Sword, Henryk Sienkiewicz, authorised and unabridged translation from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1904 ( copyright 1890, 1898 ).

Cottesloe is currently part of the federal division of Curtin, although from 1901 to 1968 and from 1974 to 1980 it was part of the Fremantle electorate.

Curtin is regarded as a safe seat for the centre right Liberal Party, which has held the seat continually since its inception, with the exception of a period from 1996 to 1998 when former Liberal member Allan Rocher held the seat as an Independent.

John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia for much of World War II, was local federal member of parliament from 1928 to 1931 and 1934 to 1945.

His parents were Roland Curtin, Sr., a wealthy Irish-born iron manufacturer from County Clare, and Jane ( Gregg ) Curtin, the daughter of U. S. Senator Andrew Gregg.