George Megalogenis is an author and journalist. His latest book is Australia’s Second Chance.
Articles by this author
We all know Australia is changing, but no-one can tell us into what
Transition vamp
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We...
Australia’s long and surprising history of playing racial politics
The race card
Malcolm Turnbull is surely the most unusual politician of his generation. A Sydney-born conservative whose governing instinct is Melburnian, it would never occur to him to play...
The predictable patterns of Australian politics
History repeats
It can safely be argued that the past three Australian prime ministers, Tony Abbott, Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, have not been great leaders. And that the trio who preceded them...
Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard in Retirement
Love thy Leader
A curious feature of our political debate is the way it compels former prime ministers to lose their dignity in the endless feedback loop of the legacy war. The Americans, despite...
Lessons in leadership and Paul Keating
The book of Paul
In July this year, Paul Keating appeared on the ABC’s Lateline program to discuss politics and the media. The following month, Julia Gillard went on the show. In...
