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Article: Australia's first prime ministerial library: past and future.
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- March 1, 2005
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When the Western Australian Institute of Technology became Curtin University of Technology in 1987, there was a strong feeling that the new university needed 'a heart'. What better way to achieve that than to develop a centre which would focus on wartime prime minister John Curtin and the strength of his legacy to Australia. The first donation to the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library (JCPML) archival research collection dated from that time and comprised significant historical material including books from John Curtin's personal library and bound volumes of the Westralian Worker newspapers annotated by him.
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