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... Curtin , prophetically , urged the development of a defensive air arm , underlining one of the points in Hughes's book , that the Royal Australian Air Force should be built up to at least parity with the total Japanese carrier - borne ...
... Curtin , prophetically , urged the development of a defensive air arm , underlining one of the points in Hughes's book , that the Royal Australian Air Force should be built up to at least parity with the total Japanese carrier - borne ...
Page 245
... Curtin Government was sworn in on 7 October . John Curtin was born in 1885 at Creswick near Ballarat , the son of a police sergeant , and left school at the age of only 13 to obtain clerical work in Melbourne . He read widely , played ...
... Curtin Government was sworn in on 7 October . John Curtin was born in 1885 at Creswick near Ballarat , the son of a police sergeant , and left school at the age of only 13 to obtain clerical work in Melbourne . He read widely , played ...
Page 255
... Curtin , Governments legislated for taxation of wartime company profits , of gifts made by companies or individuals , and in 1942 the Curtin Government re - introduced Hughes's emergency measure of World War I a Commonwealth ...
... Curtin , Governments legislated for taxation of wartime company profits , of gifts made by companies or individuals , and in 1942 the Curtin Government re - introduced Hughes's emergency measure of World War I a Commonwealth ...
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A NATION FOR A CONTINENT c 19001903 | 12 |
THREE ELEVENS IN THE FIELD c 19041908 | 55 |
LABOR IN POWER c 19091913 | 68 |
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