 Blamey was annoyed by the media campaign run against him by William Dunstan and Keith Murdoch of The Herald and Weekly Times newspaper group , but success in New Guinea led to a change of heart at the newspaper , and Blamey even accepted a dinner invitation from Murdoch in 1944 . There was another victory , though , far more significant . The Army had taken heavy casualties from malaria in the fighting in 1942 . Blamey took the advice of Edward Ford and Neil Hamilton Fairley , and strongly backed their ultimately successful efforts to control the disease . To acquaint himself with the issues , Blamey read through Manson 's Tropical Diseases , the standard medical textbook on the subject . Blamey also promoted the work of Howard Florey on the development of penicillin , and wrote to Curtin urging that £ 200 @,@ 000 be earmarked for Florey 's vision of a national institute for medical research in Canberra , which ultimately became the John Curtin School of Medical Research . 
