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 ...

There's a track record of journalists becoming prime ministers of Australia. Think Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott. But the first to go from the fourth estate – The Age – to the top job was Alfred ...

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 ...

Among the things you might not know: is that Alfred Deakin helped create the first minimum wage and was prime minister three times ON 3 AUGUST 1856 Alfred Deakin, Australia’s second, fifth and seventh ...

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 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 ...

Judith Brett has just published a new biography of Alfred Deakin, 'The Enigmatic Mr Deakin'. The fault line in Australia’s relations with Great Britain did not fracture until World War II when John ...

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, ...

The heritage-listed house named Ballara, meaning resting place, was designed and built during Deakin’s second term as prime minister in 1907 and became an important retreat where he would read, write ...

Alfred Deakin’s Ballara residency, which he built himself in 1907, will be sold and likely demolished unless an offer is made on the $8m property before June this year. An agreement between its 10 ...