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The Enigmatic Mr Deakin

6 January 2018

9:00 AM

6 January 2018

9:00 AM

Judith Brett has written extensively about liberalism in Australia. The emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University, her output includes Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People (1992) and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (2003). Now she has published the first biography of Alfred Deakin in over 50 years: The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (Text).

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