The Curtin government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister John Curtin. It was made up of members of the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Parliament from 194
Dutch and Australian PoWs of the Japanese at Tarsau, in Thailand in 1943. The Fall of Singapore followed soon after Curtin became Prime Minister of Australia.
US General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, with Prime Minister Curtin
Curtin, sitting right, at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
The Chifley government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Ben Chifley. It was made up of members of the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Parliament from 19
H. V. Evatt (left) and Ben Chifley (middle) with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (right) at the Dominion and British Leaders Conference, London, 1946