{"id":6445,"date":"2026-03-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:30:56","slug":"a-new-way-to-tell-john-curtins-story-curtin-launches-a-free-credential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/a-new-way-to-tell-john-curtins-story-curtin-launches-a-free-credential\/","title":{"rendered":"A new way to tell John Curtin\u2019s story: Curtin launches a free credential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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John Curtin came from a humble family and left school at just 13. How did this Western Australian become one of Australia\u2019s greatest prime ministers, leading our nation through the Second World War with courage and wisdom? What lessons does his leadership offer today, and how did his era shape modern Australian society?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are some of the questions explored in Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s new free online credential, John Curtin\u2019s Vision: Legacy and Leadership.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtin Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne said the free course was designed for professionals working across the private and public sectors to further their professional development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Curtin initiative is about more than history, it\u2019s about inspiring future leaders through the lens of one of the nation\u2019s most influential figures,\u2019 Professor Hayne said. \u2018The course will also benefit history enthusiasts, political scientists, journalists and educators seeking a deeper understanding of the legacy of Australia\u2019s greatest Prime Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n\n

The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library (JCPML) is proud to have partnered with the Faculty of Humanities to develop the credential. The course content is led by lecturer in history Dr Andre Brett and JCPML\u2019s special collections librarian and archivist Dr Nathan Hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using objects once owned by John Curtin from JCPML\u2019s collections, Nathan appears in a series of videos telling the story of John Curtin\u2019s life. The textbook for the credential is For Australia and Labor: A Brief Biography of John Curtin by Geoffrey Serle<\/a><\/em>. Originally released as JCPML\u2019s first publication in 1998, we have revised the book and published it as an ebook for the first time. The revised edition features references for all the quotations used, new photographs, and new formatting; it is now available through our catalogue.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The credential also draws on digitised primary sources from the JCPML catalogue and our webpages about different aspects of John Curtin\u2019s life and career. It is free and open to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Button block<\/h2>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n\n Enrol in the self-paced credential here<\/a> \n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Photograph: John Curtin working at his desk on a Sunday morning, Lodge study, Canberra, 1942, JCPML00376\/6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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These are some of the questions explored in Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s free online credential, John Curtin\u2019s Vision: Legacy and Leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[73,113,110,111,56,46,48,3,112],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-library","tag-73","tag-andre-brett","tag-credential","tag-curtin-credential","tag-curtin-library","tag-jcpml","tag-john-curtin","tag-library","tag-nathan-hobby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}