John Curtin
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"John Joseph Curtin" was an Australian politician who was the 14th Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945 and the Australian Labor Party/Leader of the Labor Party from 1935 to 1945. Having first formed a minority government in 1941, Curtin went on to lead Labor to a still-existing record landslide at the Australian federal election, 1943/1943 election on both the Two-party-preferred vote/two-party vote and Swing (Australian politics)/swing, winning two thirds of seats in the Australian House of Representatives/House of Representatives. Curtin successfully led Australia through the period when the nation was directly Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II/threatened by the Japanese advance in World War II, and is today widely regarded as one of the country's greatest ever prime ministers. With the end of the war in sight, Curtin died in office on 5 July 1945 and was succeeded briefly by Frank Forde and then by Ben Chifley.

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But Japan must guarantee Australia's safety.

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The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time. The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.

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Captaining the government of a nation is a bit more exacting than captain of a football team. I know for I've done both.

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In my personal estimation of the project. I would guess the permit will be reinstated.

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It was a technical mistake on their (DEP) end.

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[After meeting five times since forming in May, the Committee to Close the Achievement Gap delivered its first report to the Board of Education last week.] The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time, ... The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.

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We cannot measure the cost of this terrible war in money and material things. I doubt if there can be any spiritual assessment of the loss.

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The concern is, with the extension of that program, a lot of the vendors that are designing and scoring these tests are dealing with volumes of tests that they have not experienced before, as the testing program in essence doubles this spring across the country. It's a high-stakes test, and accuracy is so important.

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