John Curtin was born on 8 January 1885 in Creswick, Victoria, Australia. He was married to Elsie Needham. He died on 5 July 1945 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
[on Australia] This country shall remain forever the home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race.