The nine sources in this section include photographs, oral histories and letters which provide insight into John Curtin as a prime minister. The topics covered include the bombing of Darwin, censorship of the press, the work of the prime ministerial staff and the War Cabinet and Curtin’s relationship with the press and the people.

	Letter from RAAF airmen to John Curtin, 1942		John Curtin and Mary McGuire on the Trans-Australian Railway, 1942
	Excerpt from an interview with Gladys Joyce, 1997 - excerpt 1		Excerpt from an interview with Gladys Joyce, 1997 - excerpt 2
	Excerpt from an interview with Gladys Joyce, 1997 - excerpt 3		Excerpt from an interview with Hazel Craig, 1997 - excerpt 2
	John Curtin meets the Canberra Press Gallery, 1945		John Curtin's funeral procession through Cottesloe, 1945
	Letter of condolence from John Curtin to Mr Joyce, 1944

For more information on Curtin’s relationship with:

• the press, see the transcipt of Michelle Grattan's lecture The Prime Minister and the Press: a Study in Intimacy.

• the Australian people as revealed through the letters they wrote to their Prime Minister, see the web resource John Curtin: a Prime Minister and his People

• his personal staff, particularly when travelling between Canberra and other Australian cities, see Prime Minister in the web resource On Track: Curtin's Railway Journeys.