TAGGED: National Treasures
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What is Australia’s greatest book? In the National Library of Australia there is a 743-page volume that could lay claim to the title.

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Wattie Creek entered Australian folklore as the birthplace of the Aboriginal land-rights movement when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited the Gurindji people to grant them deeds to their land.

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Warren Brown reveals the emotional lives of Australian prime ministers through 12 objects they used every day or otherwise adored.

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The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister at Cheviot Beach sparked countless conspiracy theories and ultimately overshadowed his political accomplishments.

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Teachers' notes and study guide for The Prime Ministers' National Treasures.

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Joseph Cook became Australia's sixth Prime Minister in 1913. Before that, he established the Royal Australian Navy when he was Defence Minister.

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Alfred Deakin was Australia's second prime minister and held the position three times.

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Joseph Lyons was elected to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1929 as the Australian Labor Party member for a seat in Tasmania.

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John Curtin started out as a copy-boy on The Age newspaper, working his way up the ladder via the union movement.

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When Britain declared war on Germany in 1939 Prime Minister Robert Menzies declared Australia was also at war.