Alfred Deakin
Cabinet Member, Politician, and Country Leader
Century-old lessons return to haunt modern-day LiberalsTurnbull, like Deakin, has his opponents on the seats behind him. THE original federal Liberal Party was born a century ago this year. It is an anniversary about which the contemporary Liberal Party has been distinctly coy, reluctant to... In this article: Liberal Party, Alfred Deakin, Labor Party, George Brandis, John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull, Liberalism, Conservatism, Climate change, and Robert Menzies |
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The Australian | November 12, 2009
Global player
...means there is a vast ignorance about how globalist and how strategically shrewd so many of our prime ministers have been. Alfred Deakin was a brilliant foreign policy innovator who convinced an uninterested nation to build a navy and...
In this article: Kevin Rudd, Australia, George W. Bush, Stephen Smith, John Howard, Climate change, Kurt Campbell, United States, China, and India
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Alfred Deakin
...Tom Harley ), and he is regarded as a founding father by the modern Liberal Party . The Division of Deakin, Alfred Deakin High School, Deakin University, Deakin House at Melbourne Grammar School and the Canberra suburb of Deakin are...
In this article: Edmund Barton, Labor Party, Commonwealth, Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne Grammar School, and Fusion
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | October 30, 2009
Wowsers play an old game with new media
...materials out of our reach. In the 19th century, there was no art form more popular, or dangerous, than the novel. Alfred Deakin was among the first to quarantine Australia from the harmful medium. Convinced that access to the...
In this article: Australia, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Emile Zola, Respondent, Left 4 Dead 2, Fascism, and Climate change
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The Australian | October 25, 2009
The 2009 Alfred Deakin Lecture
...path to our future. References: 2 John Howard, The New Challenge of Liberalism (The 1986 Alfred Deakin Lecture) (Melbourne: Alfred Deakin Lecture Trust, 1986). 5 Paul Hasluck, Sir Robert Menzies (The 1979 Daniel Mannix Memorial...
In this article: Liberalism, Liberal Party of Australia, Conservatism, John Howard, John Stuart Mill, Ideology, and Isaiah Berlin
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A new battleline for Liberal ideas
...air. Senator George Brandis, of Queensland, had travelled south to deliver the 41st Alfred Deakin memorial lecture. But it was as much Tony Abbott as Deakin that Brandis had in mind on the night. That and the future of the Liberal Party.
In this article: George Brandis, Liberal Party, John Howard, Tony Abbott, Robert Menzies, Liberalism, Malcolm Turnbull, and Conservatism
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Where the mild things are
...to basic conservative values''. There are those who argue it should return to the small-l spirit of former prime ministers Alfred Deakin and Robert Menzies, with an emphasis on freedom, individual rights and enterprise. There are those who...
In this article: Climate change, Tony Abbott, Liberal Party, Copenhagen, Ideology, and Robert Menzies
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A little joy for pensioners, and richly deserved
...October 7). Sir George Reid, however, incurred far greater criticism than ''insipid''. An earlier prime minister, Alfred Deakin, a noted wordsmith, wrote this of Reid: ''His extraordinary appearance, his immense, unwieldly,...
In this article: Dog, George Reid, Revenue, Nobel Prize, and Australia
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Liberals rewrite an inclusive past
...that nothing was organised to celebrate the centenary of the fusion - the event on May 27, 1909, when the two non-Labor parties - Alfred Deakin's Protectionist Party and George Reid's Free Traders - merged. To Brandis, this was the origin...
In this article: Billy Hughes, George Brandis, Robert Menzies, Liberal Party, Joseph Lyons, The Liberals, John Howard, and George Reid
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | July 19, 2009
Australian warships visit New York
...it is symbolic of the two nations' future challenges as allies. The partnership started in 1907, when Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin invited US President Theodore Roosevelt to send the American so-called Great White Fleet of 16...
In this article: New York, HMAS Ballarat, Sydney, Theodore Roosevelt, Australia, United States, and World War I
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Follow Deakin and Menzies
Follow Deakin and Menzies on the path to pragmatism WHEN faced with a moral quandary Christians are fond of asking themselves "What would Jesus do?" Politically speaking, Liberal Party politicians and supporters likewise turn to their...
In this article: Robert Menzies, Liberal Party, William Lyne, Malcolm Turnbull, Welfare state, ALP, and Joe Cook
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Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the protection of rights at work. He also played a major part in establishing irrigation in Australia. It is likely that he could have been Premier of Victoria, but he chose to devote his energy to federation.
Throughout the 1890s Deakin was a participant in conferences of representatives of the Australian colonies that were established to draft a constitution for the proposed federation. He played an important role in ensuring that the draft was liberal and democratic and in achieving compromises to enable its eventual success. Between conferences, he worked to popularise the concept of federation and campaigned for its acceptance in colonial referenda. He then fought hard to ensure acceptance of the proposed constitution by the Government of the United Kingdom.
- Birth Date:
- August 03, 1856
- Birthplace:
- Fitzroy, Victoria
- Death Date:
- October 07, 1919
- Place of Death:
- South Yarra, Victoria
- Political party:
- Protectionist, Fusion
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