Dan Curtin

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Similar names|Daniel Curtin (disambiguation){{!}}Daniel Curtin}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}}

{{Infobox MP

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Dan Curtin

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| image = Daniel Curtin.jpg

| constituency_MP1 = Watson

| parliament1 = Australian

| majority =

| predecessor1 = Max Falstein

| successor1 = Jim Cope

| term_start1 = 10 December 1949

| term_end1 = 10 December 1955

| constituency_MP2 = Kingsford-Smith

| parliament2 = Australian

| predecessor2 = Gordon Anderson

| successor2 = Lionel Bowen

| term_start2 = 10 December 1955

| term_end2 = 29 September 1969

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1898|2|14}}

| birth_place = Sydney

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1980|12|4|1898|2|14}}

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| nationality = Australian

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| party = Australian Labor Party

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| occupation = Boilermaker

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}}

Daniel James Curtin (14 February 1898 – 4 December 1980) was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at a Catholic primary school before becoming a boilermaker and organiser of the Boilermakers' Society. In 1949, he was preselected by the Australian Labor Party to contest the safe Labor seat of Watson, displacing the sitting member, Max Falstein, who contested the seat as an independent. Curtin won the seat, which he held until 1955, when he transferred to the seat of Kingsford-Smith. He held Kingsford-Smith until 1969, when he retired from politics. Curtin provided an opportunity for several Indigenous Australian women to become involved in politics.{{cite book |last1=Moreton-Robinson |first1=Aileen |title=Talkin' up to the white woman: aboriginal women and feminism |date=2000 |publisher=University of Queensland Press |location=St Lucia, Qld. |isbn=0702231347 }} "Other indigenous women, such as Monica McGowan, became involved in Labor politics in the late 1940s, working for the then federal Labor politician Dan Curtin (Clare 1978: xii).{{cite web |last1=Horner |first1=Jack |title=Clare, Mona Matilda (Monica) (1924–1973) |url=http://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/clare-mona-matilda-monica-9750 |website=Indigenous Australia |publisher=Australian National University |accessdate=4 July 2018}}