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The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times is the book on which the 2015 television series Making Australia Great is based. Journalist George Megalogenis won the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award and the 2012 Walkley Book Award for his bestselling political book. This newly published additions includes a new afterward and appendix. Megalogenis argues that there is no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia: “Brilliant in a bust, we’ve learnt to use our brains in a boom. Despite a lingering inability to acknowledge our achievements at home, the rest of the world asks: how did we get it right?”
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George Megalogenis’s other books include The Longest Decade and the upcoming book Untitled Immigration. He is one of Australia’s most respected political and economic writers, reviews the key events since the 1970s that have forged institutional and political leadership and a canny populace. He examines how we developed from a closed economy racked by the oil shocks, toughed it out during the sometimes devastating growing pains of deregulation, and survived the Asian financial crisis, the dotcom tech wreck and the Global Financial Crisis to become the last developed nation standing in the 2000s.
Drawing 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. They 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.
In a review of the Making Australia Great series distinguished journalist Tony Wright describes how George Megalogenis and a film crew took former conservative Prime Minister John Howard back to his old school, Canterbury Boys High in Sydney’s south-west, and captured a compelling snapshot of Australia’s longer story.
Howard, who derailed his own political career in the 1980s when he suggested Asian immigration to Australia was growing too fast – a view he later recanted publicly – found himself surrounded by students of Asian, Pacific and other regional multicultural heritage. There was just one identifiably “Anglo” face among the students.
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Megalogenis himself is the son of immigrants from another period of what was called new Australia: his heritage is Greek, and his parents arrived in the post-World War II European tide during John Howard’s childhood. Like Howard, Megalogenis attended a selective high school, Melbourne High.
After 30 years as a journalist and author, Megalogenis has emerged as something of a polymath. He 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.
“We have a brilliant story to tell ourselves and the world,” Megalogenis declares. “But we don’t tell it to ourselves. I really wanted to show people how to have a big conversation again.
“It would be a shame to blow our chances as a country because we’re afraid of success.”
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