These outages affected the Emergency Services Bureau's own headquarters in Curtin and the Canberra Hospital ( running on back-up generators ) which was under intense pressure from people suffering burns and smoke inhalation.

In October 1941, the UAP was ousted by a no-confidence vote, the ALP leader John Curtin was invited to form a new government, and Menzies resigned as UAP leader.

The Fadden-led Coalition made almost no headway against Curtin, and was severely defeated in the 1943 election.

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.

Curtin died in office in 1945 and was succeeded by Ben Chifley.

* In the 2007 film Curtin, he was portrayed by Bille Brown.

The lecture theater at the John Curtin School of Medical Research was named for him during his tenure at the Australian National University.

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.

Passing 113 Acts, the 1910-13 government was a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s under John Curtin and Ben Chifley.

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 ..

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From the PRR station during the Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War, Union scout Stephen W. Pomeroy telegraphed the vital news to Governor Andrew Curtin that Robert E. Lee was concentrating the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg.

* Noted nineteenth-century folklorist and linguist Jeremiah Curtin lived in what is now Greendale, but at the time was part of the rural Town of Greenfield.

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.

Curtin died in 1945 and was succeeded by Ben Chifley, who retained government at the 1946 election with over 54 percent of the two-party vote and a continued Senate majority.

General Douglas MacArthur said that Curtin was " one of the greatest of the wartime statesmen ".

His Prime Ministerial predecessor and 1943 election Coalition leader, Arthur Fadden of the Country Party wrote: " I do not care who knows it but in my opinion there was no greater figure in Australian public life in my lifetime than Curtin.

Curtin was born in Creswick in central Victoria.

His father was a police officer of Irish descent ; Curtin attended school until the age of 14 when he started working for a newspaper in Creswick.

From 1911 until 1915 Curtin was employed as secretary of the Timberworkers ' Union, and during World War I he was a militant anti-conscriptionist.

In addition to his stance on labour rights, Curtin was also a strong advocate for the rights of women and children.

In 1927, the Federal Government convened a Royal Commission on Child Endowment Curtin was appointed as member of that commission.

Curtin proved a popular leader, rallying the nation in the face of the danger of invasion by the Japanese after Japan's entry into the war in December 1941.

For example, one point of the release stated that bushfire logistical support staging areas were being relocated from Bulls Head and Orroral Valley ( far outside urban Canberra ) to the North Curtin District Playing Fields ( far inside urban Canberra ) signalling both a major retreat by fire fighters and pointing to imminent danger to the city itself.

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.

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

Curtin later starred in the hit series 3rd Rock from the Sun ( 1996 – 2001 ), playing the role of Dr. Mary Albright.

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 ".

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

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.