The JCPML has been established to honour the contribution to Australia of its wartime Prime Minister and international statesman, John Curtin. Prime Minister Curtin's inspirational leadership and political courage unified Australia during the grim years of World War II. Through this site, researchers, teachers, students and community members can access information relating to John Curtin and his life and times held in the collections of the JCPML and elsewhere. The site provides access to the library's Electronic Research Archive (ERA) which has been developed "to enhance access to the JCPML collection of personal papers, photographs, oral histories, copies of official records and other archival material relating to the life and times of John Curtin. In addition, ERA provides electronic access to John Curtin related materials held in other institutions around the world." The library also provides various online resource materials.