George Megalogenis

George Megalogenis is a journalist and political commentator. He is a senior writer with the Australian and the author of Faultlines, The Longest Decade and Quarterly Essay 40, ‘Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era’.

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The Tyranny of Affluence. George Megalogenis and Geoffrey Blainey

The Tyranny of Affluence. George Megalogenis and Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Blainey
George Megalogenis

Australia today may not suffer from the tyranny of distance (the phrase originally coined by Geoffrey Blainey) so much as the tyranny of...

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Love thy Leader: Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard in Retirement

George Megalogenis

A curious feature of our political debate is the way it compels former prime ministers to lose their dignity in the endless feedback loop...

Seeking a Leader Like Keating. George Megalogenis in Conversation

Seeking a Leader Like Keating. George Megalogenis in Conversation

George Megalogenis

In his Monthly essay, Lessons in Leadership, George Megalogenis writes about the malaise in contemporary Australian politics, and how a...

The Book of Paul: Lessons in Leadership and Paul Keating

George Megalogenis

Comparisons between leaders can be unfair to the incumbent because the one with the job has yet to receive the clemency of political...

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