Resources on Alfred Deakin

Access print and digital material about and by Alfred Deakin, Deakin University's namesake.

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  • Cahir, Fred & Dan Tout “‘All That Appears Possible Now Is to Mitigate as Much as Possible the Trials of Their Closing Years’: Alfred Deakin’s Attitudes to Aboriginal Affairs” Australian Journal of Politics & History, vol. 64, no. 2, June 2018: pp. 177–93. 

  • Hearn, Mark “Examined Suspiciously: Alfred Deakin, Eleanor Cameron and Australian liberal discourse in the 1911 referendum” History Australia, vol. 2, no. 3, 2005: pp. 87.1-87.20. 
  • Jones, Colin “’The View from Port Philip Heads’: Alfred Deakin and the move towards an Australian Navy” Southern Trident: strategy, history and the rise of Australian Naval power, eds David Stevens & John Reeve. Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2001: pp. 160-73.   
  • Lake, Marilyn “’The Brightness of Eyes and Quiet Assurance Which Seem to Say American’: Alfred Deakin’s Identification with Republican Manhood” Australian Historical Studies, vol. 38, no. 129, 2007: pp. 32-51. 
  • Macintyre, Stuart “Alfred Deakin: ‘His Sacred Service’” 1901: The Forgotten Election, ed. Marion Simms. University of Queensland Press, Australia, 2001: pp. 41-55. 
  • Meaney, Neville K. “’A Proposition of the Highest International Importance’: Alfred Deakin’s Pacific Agreement Proposal and its significance for Australian-Imperial relations’ Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 1967: pp. 200-13. 
  • Rankin, Benjamin “Alfred Deakin and water resources politics in Australia” History Australia, vol. 10, no. 2, Aug. 2013: pp. 114-35. 

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