{"title":"George Megalogenis","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Megalogenis offers insightful analysis through a blend of history, politics, and contemporary affairs, exploring the forces that shape Australia's identity and future. His works delve into economic shifts, political strategies, and national challenges with depth and clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can also appreciate his thoughtful examination of sports as a cultural phenomenon, bringing a unique perspective that connects athletic events with broader social and political themes. His writing engages both the curious historian and the informed citizen alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"australias-second-chance-by-george-megalogenis-9780143783640","title":"Australia's Second Chance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now we're back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the world's great nations?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur country's most insightful big-picture commentator, George Megalogenis crunches the numbers and weaves our history into a riveting argument, brilliantly chronicling our dialogue with the world and bringing welcome insight into the urgent question of who we are, and what we can become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMegalogenis slaps history and politics and culture like mortar in and around his knowledge of economics and numbers to build compelling, even thrilling, theses about the country of his birth and where it stands in the world.\u003c\/em\u003e - Tony Wright, \u003cem\u003eSaturday Age\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimely and significant ... 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But does he have an exit strategy for Australia from the pandemic?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this original essay, \u003cem\u003eExit Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e, George Megalogenis explores the new politics of care and fear. He shows how our economic officials learnt the lessons of past recessions and applied them to new circumstances. But where to from here? Megalogenis analyses the shifting dynamics of the federation and the appeal of closed borders. He discusses the fate of higher education - what happened to the clever country? And he asks: what should government be responsible for in the twenty-first century, and does the Morrison government have the imagination for the job?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMorrison has no political interest in talking about the future. But passivity does not reduce the threat of another outbreak. 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Politics-as-usual is not enough for many Australians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this richly insightful essay, George Megalogenis traces the how and why of a political re-alignment. He sheds new light on the topics of housing, the changing suburbs, the fate of the Voice to Parliament, and trust in politicians. This is an essay about the Greens, the teals, and the Coalition. In a contest between new and old, progressive and conservative, which vision of Australia will win out? But it's also about Labor in power - is careful centrism the right strategy for the times, or is something more required?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/em\u003e, Megalogenis explores the strategies and secret understandings of a political culture under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The sword of minority government hangs over the major parties. Neither side commands an electoral base broad enough in the twenty-first century to guarantee that power, once secured, can be sustained for more than a single three-year term. Now the question turns to whether a return to minority government will further damage our democracy, or, perhaps, revitalise it.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - George Megalogenis, \u003cem\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis essay contains correspondence relating to \u003cem\u003eQuarterly Essay 95, High Noon\u003c\/em\u003e, from Thomas Keneally, Emma Shortis, David Smith, Bruce Wolpe, Paul Kane, and Don Watson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849567523052,"sku":"9781760644413","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23831073482814.jpg?v=1759052116"},{"product_id":"the-australian-moment-by-george-megalogenis-9780143783503","title":"The Australian Moment","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012, \u003ci\u003eThe Australian Moment\u003c\/i\u003e is the book of the TV series \u003ci\u003eMaking Australia Great\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. 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As a result, whatever happens next, we're as well positioned as any to survive the ongoing rumblings of the Great Recession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on newly declassified documents, fresh interviews with our former prime ministers and a unique ability to bring the numbers to life, Megalogenis describes how, at just the right time, the Australian people became more farsighted than our politicians. We stopped spending before the rest of the world and, at the top of a boom, voted out a government that was throwing around the biggest bribes ever offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Australian Moment\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with original insight, challenging our often partisan selective memories and revealing how our leadership and community have underestimated each other's contribution to the nation's resilience. 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