You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It is with great regret that we announce the death of Mr Alfred Deakin, which occurred at his ...

In jettisoning Alfred Deakin, the Liberals made a great mistake and showed the thinness of their historical memory. National Library of Australia Australia’s federal Liberal Party began not with ...

The Borough of Queenscliffe has committed $300,000 to help save the Point Lonsdale retreat of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin as some family members try to stave off its sale and subdivision. The ...

Unlike early 20th-century prime minister Alfred Deakin, Tony Abbott has no language for reaching out to the Australian people. Library of Congress How do you rally a people to accept the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australia’s second prime minister, Alfred Deakin, built his holiday home, “Ballara”, in 1907 as a ...

Indigenous singer, songwriter and author, the late Archie Roach, was at a writers’ festival discussing his book, Tell Me Why, about the pain of life as a child stolen from his parents, when Peter ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. NARRATOR: Alfred Deakin was born in Collingwood, Melbourne, the son of English immigrants. A writer of ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. There's a track record of journalists becoming prime ministers of Australia. Think Malcolm Turnbull ...

The Federation cause was flagging. There was considerable opposition to the approaching referendum to be held in four of the colonies, especially Victoria and NSW. In NSW the jelly-stomached premier ...

Author takes home $25,000 prize for The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, which includes ‘surprising detail’ about Australia’s second prime minister Judith Brett has won the $31,000 National Biography award for ...

The great-grandson of a former prime minister has been granted a lifeline to save a historic site – but he needs $4m from the federal government to close the deal. Alfred Deakin’s Ballara residency, ...

There’s a cloud over the future of former prime minister’s Alfred Deakin’s historic Point Lonsdale home, after it failed to sell at auction. Ballara was listed for sale after a campaign to get ...