PM John Curtin broadcasting to Australia on arrival in England, 30 April 1944. JCPML00409/14. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT,PC,CH (1894-1978) Prime Minister 1939-1941, 1949-1966. JCPML00036/11  

   THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
     Creating an independent Australian foreign policy


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Original Exhibition

The original exhibition opened to the public from February 2005 to December 2007 in the the JCPML Wesfarmers Gallery in the John Curtin building at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia.

View exhibition booklet (231kbyte pdf file)

View exhibition essay in interactive format. (You'll need the free Macromedia Flash Player to do this.)

Or read the exhibition essay (print friendly version).

Exhibition Team

Curator
Lesley Carman-Brown, JCPML

Designer
John Davies, Insight Communication & Design

Project management
Kandy-Jane Henderson, JCPML

Curatorial advisor
David Black, JCPML Historical Consultant

Curatorial and research assistance
Heather Campbell, Researcher
Lesley Wallace and David Wylie, JCPML

Graphic design
Caroline Selfe, Insight Communication & Design

Sponsors

The Art of the Possible: Creating an independent Australian foreign policy exhibition was supported by Australia Post, the Curtin Library and Information Service and Drs Ian and Helen Fairnie.

With thanks to

• JCPML donors
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade which provided the working papers of Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937-1949
• ACP Publishing
• Australia Post
• Australian War Memorial
• Australiana Fund
• Fairfax Photos
• FilmWorld
• Flinders University Library
• Fremantle Light & Sound Discovery Centre
• Frith Family
• HA & C Glad
• Justice Nicholas Hasluck
• Imperial War Museum
• MacArthur Memorial Library & Archives
• Menzies Virtual Museum
• National Archives of Australia
• National Library of Australia
• Brian Pope
• Roosevelt Presidential Library
• State Library of Victoria
• Telstra
• United Kingdom Public Records Office
• United Nations Library
• Greg Wallace
• West Australian News Ltd

 

Online Exhibition

The online exhibition was developed by the JCPML in 2006, using the text and selected images and objects from the original exhibition.

Online Exhibition Team

Web design
Lesley Wallace
With assistance from David Wylie & James Butterfield, JCPML

Education activities
Ros Marshall, JCPML

Virtual tours
Hans Versluis, Learning Support Network, Curtin University of Technology

With thanks to

• JCPML donors
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade which provided the working papers of Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937-1949
• Australia Post
• Australiana Fund
• Flinders University Library
• Fremantle Light & Sound Discovery Centre
• Frith Family
• Imperial War Museum
• MacArthur Memorial Library & Archives
• National Archives of Australia
• National Library of Australia
• Roosevelt Presidential Library
• Telstra
• United Kingdom Public Records Office
• United Nations Library
• West Australian News Ltd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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