Raising The Curtin

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The Bombing of Darwin
Bringing the Troops Home

The Final Curtin
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Acknowledgements
Bibliography

Raising the Curtain :
On the Life and Times of John Curtin

~8th January 1885 to 5th July 1945~

by Stephanie Giles, a
year 9 student at Korowa Anglican Girls School
and national winner in the 2005 National History Challenge in the special category 'The life and times of John Curtin'

Note by the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library:

The content of Stephanie's winning entry has not been edited by the JCPML, except for the substitution of JCPML photographs for copyrighted images in the original work and the inclusion of three footnotes which clarify historical facts. The original images are cited in Stephanie's bibliography.

Published with the permission of Stephanie Giles as an example of an excellent National History Challenge entry.