Andrew Tink. Why John Curtin May Never Have Been Prime Minister from plane crash photos Watch Video
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Description: On 13 August 1940 three cabinet ministers died in a plane crash. Fatally destabilised, the conservative government gradually crumbled and a year later, John Curtin became prime minister. Although an RAAF officer was supposed to have been the pilot, rumours circulated that the Air Minister had been at the controls. But the bodies were badly incinerated, hampering the identification of those in the cockpit. The RAAF rather than the police had taken control of the crash site and had quickly removed
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