• Early life
• 1917 general strike

• Member for Macquarie (1928–1931)

• Member for Macquarie (1940–1951)

• Scullin Ministry
• First Curtin Ministry
• Second Curtin Ministry
• 1945 Labor Party leadership election

Prime Minister of Australia

Term of government (1945-1949)

• Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
• 1946 14 Powers referendum
• QANTAS nationalisation
• 1946 Social Services referendum
• Commonwealth Employment Service
• Bank nationalisation
• 1948 rents and prices referendum
• Snowy Mountains Scheme
• 1949 Australian coal strike

Ministries

• First
• Second

Elections

• 1946
• 1949

• The light on the hill