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	Alfred Deakin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deakin was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of English immigrants.
		Deakin was elected to the colonial Parliament of Victoria in 1879, as a liberal protectionist and a supporter of the radical Premier, Graham Berry.
		Deakin was a delegate to the Federal Conventions of 1891 and 1897-98, and federation became the greatest cause of his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Deakin (836 words)

	Deakin, Australian Capital Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deakin (postcode: 2600) is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
		Deakin is named after Alfred Deakin, second prime minister of Australia.
		On census night 2001 Deakin 2716 people were present in Deakin, although the suburb had an estimated resident population of 2663.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deakin,_Australian_Capital_Territory (437 words)

	Alfred Deakin
		Alfred Deakin was born in Collingwood in 1856 to immigrants William Deakin and his wife Sarah.
		Deakin had invested heavily in land speculation during the 1880s and was badly affected by the burst of the land boom in the 1890s.
		Alfred Deakin died in 1919 and is buried in St Kilda Cemetery with his wife Pattie who was well known for her work in children’s welfare and especially the kindergarten, creche and playground movements.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~foskc/deakin.htm (306 words)

	Alfred Deakin
		Alfred Deakin was born on August 3, 1856 in Fitzroy.
		Deakin was Attorney-General in the first federal government, the youngest member of the ministry, and became Barton's closest friend and adviser.
		Deakin was asked by the Governor-General to form a government and the Fusion Party remained in power until the general election of 1910.
	members.tripod.com /virtaus4/volume6/prime_ministers/alfred_deakin.htm (1020 words)

	Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Deakin - Before (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Deakin was born on 3 August 1856, in Collingwood, Melbourne.
		Deakin and the Victorian Premier, George Turner, ensured the Constitution Bill passed the Victorian parliament and could be put to the colony’s voters at an 1898 referendum.
		Deakin, Victorian Premier George Turner, and Deakin’s mentor David Syme, were the major force in ensuring, after a tense few days of negotiation, that Lord Hopetoun reversed his choice of William Lyne.
	primeministers.naa.gov.au /meetpm.asp?pmId=3&pageName=before (1572 words)

	Alfred Deakin
		Alfred Deakin was so idealistic that when he was first elected to the Victorian Parliament, he resigned immediately because he believed that administrative bungling of the poll had given him an unfair advantage.
		Deakin's youthful idealism reflected his wide reading of romantic 19th-century literature, which dwelt on the days when knighthood was in flower.
		Deakin's Factories Act became a model for all the colonies and probably aroused the enthusiasm of his new wife 'Pattie' Browne, whom he married against her wealthy father's opposition.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5557/deakin.html (1416 words)

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		Deakin had not wanted to be a politician; writing in 1900 about these events, he said he became one by ‘sheer force of circumstance’ and the occupation became congenial to him only by degrees.
		Deakin proclaimed his sympathies with the workers, for if a choice had to be made between 'a little flesh and blood with much capital' and 'a great deal of flesh and blood with little capital', then surely 'the living and thinking weight must carry our sympathies'.
		Deakin was a friend of labour and a champion of social justice, but he was fearful of combinations and the use of force.
	www.aph.gov.au /SEnate/pubs/occa_lect/transcripts/220803.doc (4084 words)

	Alfred Deakin Biography / Biography of Alfred Deakin Biography
		Alfred Deakin (1856-1919) was an Australian political leader who established a remarkable record in colonial and federal politics in constructive and progressive causes.
		Alfred Deakin was born in the gold-boom city of Melbourne on Aug. 3, 1856.
		Deakin lost support in 1908 but became prime minister for a third term (1909-1910) in a "fusion" with erst-while opponents on the non-Labour side.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-alfred-deakin (545 words)

	ALFRED DEAKIN'S PRAYERS
		Alfred Deakin was the man mainly responsible for the passage of the Australian Constitution through the English House of Commons.
		Deakin, a native born Australian was nurtured in his faith by his mother.
		Deakin was the chairman of directors, and the collapse severely affected his financial position and self respect.
	users.netconnect.com.au /~nacl/history/events/deakin.htm (4140 words)

	Alfred Deakin Place
		Alfred Deakin Place is a public open space at the centre of Ballarat's camp Street Arts precinct.
		Deakin, who was Member for Ballarat and Attorney General in Australia's first Parliament, and served as Prime Minister for three terms, between 1903 and 1910.
		Alfred Deakin Place, Ballarat's newest urban public open space, is at the very heart of the Camp Street arts precinct, providing an inviting, grassed and paved area for people to gather and be entertained.
	www.hermaj.com /alfred_deakin.html (579 words)

	Australian Unity: Centenary of Federation Website People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Deakin was a life member of the Prahran Branch of the Australian Natives' Association, and although he never took a position of leadership in the Association, he worked closely with it in the quest for Federation.
		Deakin was a member of the Federal Convention of 1891, and one of the ten elected Victorian delegates to the Convention of 1897-98, where he served on the Constitutional Committee.
		Deakin was a member of the delegation sent to London to secure the passage of the legislation, and in this capacity became one of the first truly Australian statesmen.
	www.austunity.com.au /au/cofederation/people.asp (3167 words)

	National Museum of Australia - Alfred Deakin
		Alfred Deakin was Prime Minister three times, from 24 September 1903 to 27 April 1904, from 5 July 1905 to 13 November 1908 and from 2 June 1909 to 29 April 1910.
		Alfred Deakin was born on 3 August in 1856, in Collingwood (now part of Fitzroy), Victoria, and died in South Yarra, Victoria, on 7 October 1917.
		Deakin was elected for the West Bourke seat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in February 1879 but after a press allegation that eligible voters had been excluded from voting he resigned his seat as a matter of principle as soon as he had delivered his maiden speech.
	www.nma.gov.au /schools/school_resources/resource_websites_and_interactives/primeministers/alfred_deakin (1815 words)

	When Deakin went in to bat - FeaturesGeneral - www.theage.com.au
		Deakin's Protectionists formed the government, the Free Traders constituted the opposition, and the Labor Party sat on the cross-benches, agnostic on the tariff question that fundamentally divided the other two.
		Deakin, not one of Australia's prime ministerial cricket aficionados, did not, even though there was such fervour surrounding the cricket that Deakin, as his biographer has written, "must have heard little else talked about in general conversation".
		Deakin's speech remains, despite the aspirations of John Howard and Sir Robert Menzies before him, the most vivid and effective instance of an Australian prime minister connecting national politics to the national pastime.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/11/1076388428004.html?from=storyrhs (1689 words)

	TIME.com: Alfred Deakin -- Oct. 25, 1999 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Deakin blazed through the Antipodes and London on a sacred mission to create a nation that would "be one people." He played the backroom peace maker in the drafting of a Constitution, while in the front line he ignited popular support.
		Deakin was the nation's second, fifth and seventh Prime Minister in a decade of political turmoil, social experimentation and institution building that would, according to political historian Paul Kelly, form the "Australian Settlement" until the 1980s.
		Deakin was introduced to David Syme, owner of the Melbourne Age and arguably the most powerful man in the colony, who took him on as a writer: he excelled.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/intl/article/0,9171,1107991025-33677,00.html (887 words)

	THE VISIONARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the 1870s and 80s Deakin, and other leaders like George Turner and Isaac Isaacs, (later to be the first Australian-born governor-general) were part of a new generation of Australian-born ‘colonials’ who had nationalist aspirations to develop genuine Australian institutions, culture and identity.
		Deakin originally trained as a lawyer but was uninterested and received few briefs.
		Deakin was a master of consensus and persuasion, but he could also act with speed and purpose.
	www.foskc.org /deakin.htm (1064 words)

	ABC Radio National Alfred Deakin Lectures
		Many contemporary Australians however would continue to share Deakin's social vision, for it was Alfred Deakin, above all, who instituted the uniquely Australian idea of the "fair go", and put in place much of Australia’s political and social infrastructure.
		The Alfred Deakin Lectures were part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and first broadcast in May 2001 to commemorate the first sitting of federal parliament.
		The Alfred Deakin Lectures are free and are being held at the Melbourne Town Hall and the Capitol Theatre (May 10 - May 20).
	www.abc.net.au /rn/deakin (306 words)

	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Prime Ministers - Deakin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Deakin's archival records are concerned with a range of topics from the foundations of Australian defence policy to the transfer of the Northern Territory to the Commonwealth in 1911.
		Alfred Deakin served as Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs from 24 September 1903 to 27 April 1904 and from 5 July 1905 to 13 November 1908.
		Pattie Deakin accompanied Alfred Deakin to London in 1900 and took an active role in the Australian delegation.
	www.naa.gov.au /the_collection/prime_ministers/deakin.html (1062 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 211 - Prime Minister Alfred Deakin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Deakin served as Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs from 24 September 1903 to 27 April 1904 and from 5 July 1905 to 13 November 1908.
		Deakin’s government was instrumental in establishing and strengthening the essential machinery of state.
		Alfred Deakin died in Melbourne on 7 October 1919, and was given a state funeral.
	www.naa.gov.au /fSheets/fs211.html (715 words)

	[Australian War Memorial]
		Vera was the youngest daughter of Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin.
		Vera Deakin was awarded an OBE in 1919 for her services as head of the Bureau.
		Vera Deakin married Thomas Walter White in March 1920, and became Lady White in 1952 when her husband, the High Commissioner in London, was knighted.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/redcross/vera_deakin.htm (239 words)

	DEAKIN - POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION
		Alfred Deakin argued that since, at such a convention, the delegates would merely be expected to say yes or no to a proposal, the people were perfectly capable of doing the same.
		Indeed, this was symbolised quite vividly by the voyage of Deakin and his colleagues to London as suppliants to the United Kingdom government to persuade them to have the Commonwealth Bill enacted by the Imperial Parliament at Westminster.
		But alert, as Deakin was, to the times we live in and to the need to reconsider the document and to change it where change is necessary.
	www.hcourt.gov.au /speeches/kirbyj/kirbyj_deakin2.htm (5669 words)

	Alfred Deakin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Deakin was engaged as the barrister for Deeming's defence.
		Some of Deakin's papers from the trial are held in the manuscript collection of the National Library of Australia.
		Alfred Deakin went on to become Prime Minister of Australia three times between 1903 and 1909.
	www.prov.vic.gov.au /exhibs/deeming/36.htm (204 words)

	Deakin University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Deakin University was established in 1974 and named after Alfred Deakin, a leader in the Federation movement in Australia.
		Deakin's internships are for academic credit and represent a quarter of a normal full time semester load.
		Deakin's Geelong location, adjacent to Australia's surf coast has enabled relationships to be developed with major surf companies that have their headquarters based in the region.
	www.aeo.us /profiles/DU.html (573 words)

	Alfred Deakin and the Historians
		Alfred Deakin is on the cover of this edition of the MRC News - the first edition in the year of the Centenary of Federation.
		Deakin was Australia’s second Prime Minister and Prime Minister on three separate occasions (1903-04, 1905-08, 1909-10).
		The vigorous debate about the role of Deakin, and indeed about the role of all of our prime ministers is a welcome development in the discussion of Australian politics.
	www.mrcltd.org.au /uploaded_documents/ACFA17.htm (1761 words)

	The Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures exist to discuss and promote the contributions of society's most creative and innovative individuals.
		The Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures cherishes the concept of collective creativity seeking to explore the dynamic relationship between diverse fields of human endeavour.
		Above all, The Deakin Lectures are offered in a spirit of genuine curiosity, to a city which values open debate and in a world of rapid and constant change.
	www.deakinlectures.com /home/index.php (132 words)

	Discovering Democracy - Alfred Deakin Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Deakin believed that the Australian colonies should join together (federate) and become one nation.
		While Deakin was prime minister, old age pensions were started and Canberra was selected as the national capital.
		More information on Alfred Deakin is included on the Stories of Democracy CD-ROM.
	www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/biographies/deakin.htm (184 words)

	The Brisbane Institute - Transcripts - Reptiles, Queens and the “Lost” Chapters of the Great Constitutional ...
		Deakin wrote of this betrayal as follows: “Dickson himself like most commercial men was in favour of the retention of the right of appeal in all cases to the Privy Council and had always so avowed.
		The battle with Chamberlain had been tough and now Deakin could relax and wait for the happy communication from Edmund Barton the first Prime Minister of Australia to join him in Sydney and be sworn in as one of Australia’s first ministers of State.
		Barton and Deakin had discussed who would be in the first government of Australia and now it was just a matter of time.
	www.brisinst.org.au /papers/botsman_peter_reptiles/print.html (3245 words)

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