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Later she passed the Licentiate of Trinity College in drama and taugh Kristin Williamson has been an actor, teacher, journalist and screenwriter and is the author of eight books, including two bestselling novels. After graduating she took up a scholarship at the University of Florence to study in Italian for a year. She was born in Melbourne, went to school in Geelong and then trained as a teacher. Kristin Williamson has been an actor, teacher, journalist and screenwriter and is the author of eight books, including two bestselling novels. The most important figures are Curtin, Menzies, Roosevelt, Churchill, MacArthur and Blamey.ĭrawing on both published and unpublished documents from Australian, British and US sources, some of which had only recently been released, Kristin Williamson has imaginatively recreated the events of the three most crucial years in the history of Australia.more The Last Bastion is the story of a major power struggle, with bitter conflict between Canberra, London and Washington. This appeal, broadcast by Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin to the United States in 1942, signalled the greatest crisis in Australia’s history. If you let us fall, America itself is in danger.’ The Last Bastion is the story of a major power struggle, with bitter conflict between Canberra, Londo ‘We are the last bastion between the Japanese and the west coast of America. If you let us fall, America itself is in danger.’ This appeal, broadcast by Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin to the United States in 1942, signalled the greatest crisis in Australia’s history. ‘We are the last bastion between the Japanese and the west coast of America.