Скачать или смотреть BALLARA: Seeking a sustainable community use for Deakin’s retreat and bush garden in Point Lonsdale

Tom Harley is a great grandson of Alfred and Pattie Deakin and part-owner of Ballara. He is leading the search for a sustainable community use for the house to secure its future.
Ballara at Point Lonsdale is the most intact house of any early Australian Prime Minister. Designed and built by Alfred Deakin and his wife Pattie, Ballara has been in family ownership for 115 years and retains original furnishings, an exceptional bush garden and rare local flora. It holds an incomparable capsule of Australian 20th century history. Tom Harley is a political scientist, with an economics and finance background. He has represented Australia on the APEC Business Advisory Council.
He has been campaigning to raise funds in support of Ballara’s preservation for sustainable community use.