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Deakin was a founding father of Federation, along with Edmund Barton. Deakin was a lawyer who had another string to his bow – journalism. He wrote anonymous newspaper articles about federal politics for many years – even while prime minister. His government introduced tariff protection and old age pensions.
Alfred Deakin was the prime minister of Australia (1903–04, 1905–08, 1909–10), who shaped many of the policies of the new commonwealth, especially those dealing with restriction of nonwhite immigration, social welfare, and protection of domestic industry.
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RETT. Alfred. Deakin became committed to the cause of federation when he was a young minister serving in the cabinet of James Service, the twelfth premier of Victoria, who won the 1883 election with a platform that included the commitment to work for federation of the Australian colonies. An intercolonial conference established a Federal ...
Liberalism in Australia. Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919) was an Australian politician, statesman and barrister who served as the second prime minister of Australia from 1903 to 1904, 1905 to 1908 and 1909 to 1910. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, and in his final term as that of the Liberal Party.
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century he epitomized Victorian liberalism. His services to the Federation movement and the new nation were immense. The Commonwealth briefly gained recognition as a national laboratory for social experimentation and positive liberalism, and Deakin more than anyone brought that about.
Political Life. Deakin was a major supporter of federation. Before 1900 Australia was a group of independent colonies controlled by Great Britain. In the late 1800s many people, including Deakin, wanted the colonies to come together to form a commonwealth. Deakin attended conferences in the 1890s to help write legislation to make that happen.
Alfred Deakin, Australia's 2nd Prime Minister, was in office 3 times in the first 10 years of Federation. Often referred to as ‘the constructor’, his work in building soundly on the nation’s constitutional foundations is evident over 100 years later.
