Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia’s second prime minister, Alfred Deakin, built his holiday home, “Ballara”, in 1907 as a sanctuary from the stress of ...

Minority governments have been part of Australia’s political history since Federation. In the country’s early decades, Prime Ministers Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, Chris Watson, George Reid and ...

Alfred Deakin occupied many notable posts and earned several memorable sobriquets in his long and distinguished public career. Member for Ballarat, Minister for Public Works and Water Supply, Chief ...

As the late John Hirst tellingly observed (and to whom, together with Alan Davies, Brett movingly dedicates her book), despite Deakin’s prayers for political obliteration, “success dogged him”. After ...

Descendants of Australia’s second prime minister Alfred Deakin have re-entered the political fray seeking an election commitment to put his historic Point Lonsdale holiday home into public hands.

Alfred Deakin served as the second Prime Minister of Australia, in office for three separate terms. Before entering office, he was a leader of the movement for Australian federation.

Followed categories will be added to My News. “Ballara” – the former holiday estate of Australia’s second prime minister Alfred Deakin – is tipped to be snapped up by property developers ...

Michael Sukkar (Li beral) since 2013. Deakin was first contested at the 1937 election and is named after Alfred Deakin, Australia's second Prime Minister, who served three terms as Prime Minister ...

The mayor of a tiny Bellarine Peninsula municipality says the coastal idyll of Point Lonsdale risks ending up “like Rosebud” if the historic manor estate of Australia’s second prime minister ...