Endnotes
- A W Martin, Robert Menzies A life, Volume 1, 1894–1943, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1993, p. 211. Back
- David Day, John Curtin a life, Sydney, Harper Collins, 1999, p. 352. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A life, p. 212. Back
- Sydney Morning Herald, 28 July 1937. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 212. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 153. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 213. Back
- See John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library. Records of Arthur Calwell, ‘To build and defend a happy and self-reliant Australia’, ALP policy speech by John Curtin 20 September 1937, JCPML00649/1. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 355. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 213. Back
- Cited in Day, John Curtin a life, p. 354. Interestingly, Curtin had declined an invitation to attend the Coronation in May 1937 presumably in order to focus on the Gwydir by-election. Back
- Ibid., p. 354. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 214. Gavin Souter (Acts of Parliament. A narrative history of the Senate and the House of Representatives Commonwealth of Australia, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1988, p. 308) suggests the distance travelled was 5000 miles. Back
- Lloyd Ross, John Curtin a biography, South Melbourne: Sun Books, MacMillan, 1977, p. 171. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, pp. 214–215;Day, John Curtin a life, p. 366. Back
- See Heather Campbell, Diary of a Labor Man 1917–1945, JCPML, 2008 available at http://john.curtin.edu.au/diary/. Back
- Westralian Worker, 24 sep 1937 p. 6 Back
- Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October 1937, p. 15. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 356. Back
- Oscar Schreiber, cited in Sydney Morning Herald, 25 October 1937, p. 9 (Bede Nairn, The Big Fella. Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891–1949, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1986, p. 291. Back
- Ibid., p. 305. Back
- Paul Hasluck, The Government and the People 1939–1941, Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1970, p. 246. Back
- Ibid., p. 250. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 300. Back
- Ibid. Back
- See Hasluck, The Government and the People 1939–1941, pp. 245ff for a discussion of the extent to which serious consideration was given to finding means for postponing the election due in 1940 —‘whatever thoughts the Government may have had about extending the life of Parliament, it had abandoned them as impracticable’. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 384. Back
- Hasluck, The Government and the People 1939–1941, p. 256. Back
- Day, John Curtin A Life, p. 384. Back
- See for example, the Victorian Chamber of Commerce advertisement suggesting ‘An All-In War Effort is Impossible on Rationed Petrol’ (Hasluck, The Government and the People 1939–1941, p. 257). Back
- Ibid., p. 258. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 303. On 12 July Menzies offered Labor specifically five or six seats in cabinet (Hasluck, The Government and the People 1939–1941, p. 254). Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 384. Back
- See Campbell, Diary of a Labor Man. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 394. Back
- Hasluck, The Government and the People 1939–1941, p. 260. Back
- Ibid., pp. 256 and 260. Back
- Ibid., p. 250. Back
- Commonwealth of Australia Parliamentary Debates (CPD), Vol. 163, 15 May 1940, p. 823. Back
- Ibid., pp. 824–825. Back
- Hasluck, The Government and the people 1939–1941, p. 256. Back
- Ibid., p. 261. Back
- Ibid. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, pp. 307–308. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, pp. 384–385. Back
- When the result became known Curtin’s daughter sent him a telegram suggesting that he was ‘Batting on a sticky wicket but you will get the runs’ (Ross, John Curtin, pp. 195–197). Back
- Digest of Decisions and Announcements, No. 59, 6 June 1943 cited in David Black, In His Own Words: John Curtin’s Speeches and Writings, Bentley: Paradigm Books, Curtin University, 1995, p. 221. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 505. Back
- Hasluck, The Government and the People 1939–1941, p. 365. Back
- Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, vol. 175, 24 June 1943, p. 353. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 501. Back
- See, for example, the discussion in Black, In His own Words, pp. 222ff. Back
- Hasluck, The Government and The People 1942–1945, Canberra: Australian war Memorial, 1970, p. 717. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 503. Back
- Paul Burns, The Brisbane Line Controversy: Political Opportunism versus National Security, 1942–45, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1998, p. 148 cited in ibid, p. 504. Back
- Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, vol. 175, 22 June 1943, p. 24. Back
- According to journalist Edgar Holt Curtin had ‘won the debate hands down (Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 1943, cited in Day, John Curtin a life, p. 507). See also Souter, Acts of Parliament, pp. 356–357. Back
- Ward subsequently claimed parliamentary privilege in refusing to answer questions from the Royal Commissioner but was re-elected to the ministry after the election, albeit in a more minor role than previously (see Black, In His Own Words, p. 224). Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 407. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 508. Back
- Ibid. Back
- Hasluck, The Government and The People 1942–1945, p. 366. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 509. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 412. Back
- Ibid., p. 413. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 510. Back
- Ibid., p. 511. Back
- Melbourne Herald, 5 August 1943 cited in Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 414. Back
- Norman E Lee, John Curtin Saviour of Australia, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1983, pp. 141–142. Back
- See references (Wednesday 25 August 1943) in See Heather Campbell, Diary of a Labor Man 1917–1945, JCPML, 2008. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 509. Back
- Ibid., p. 509. Back
- Campbell, Diary of a Labor Man. Back
- See references in Black, In His own Words, pp. 227–228. Back
- See Campbell, Diary of a Labor Man for 18 August 1943. Back
- Digest of Decisions and Announcements, No. 63, pp. 24–25. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 514. Back
- Souter, Acts of Parliament, p. 358. Back
- Martin, Robert Menzies A Life, p. 416. Back
- Lee, John Curtin: Saviour of Australia, pp. 143–144. Back
- The most historic result came in the seat of Darwin, formerly held in the 1930s by Prime Minister Lyons, with the success by 800 votes by his widow Enid Lyons defeating future Tasmanian Labor Premier Eric Reece. Dame Enid herself went on to become the first female cabinet minister in Australian federal politics. Back
- Day, John Curtin a life, p. 356. Back
- Ibid., p. 354. Back
- Ibid., p. 384. Back
- Ross, John Curtin a biography, p. 196. Back
