His voluminous prayer diaries, which he kept from the age of ... a position now widely accepted as the “practical centre”. No other book has so powerfully revealed Alfred Deakin’s centrality to ...

as historian Dr Al Gabay makes clear in his 1992 book of Deakin’s secret written thoughts, The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin. Put simply, Deakin believed he had a divine destiny to create a ...

She also received a small grant from the Australian Prime Ministers Centre for her book ... Mr Deakin. Australia’s federal Liberal Party began not with Robert Menzies in 1945, but with Alfred ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. NARRATOR: Alfred Deakin was born in Collingwood, Melbourne, the son of English immigrants.