Megalogenis at Melbourne Writers Festival
Political journalist and author George Megalogenis will present two sessions at the upcoming Melbourne Writers Festival.
George Megalogenis.
Political journalist and author George Megalogenis will present two sessions at the upcoming Melbourne Writers Festival.
The first session - held on Saturday 25 August - is titled 'Australia II'. Former director of the Melbourne Fringe, Esther Anatolitis, will also present at this session. The session will look at whether or not second generation Australians have a unique perspective.
On Sunday 26 August, Megalogenis will take part in a sessions titled 'Seizing the Australian Moment'. Megalogenis - author of The Australian Moment - says our institutions and intuition have delivered the best economy left standing in the developed world. Laura Tingle - author of Great Expectations - says that we have unrealistic expectations of what our largest institution - government - can deliver. How do we seize the moment and restore our faith in politics the session will ask.
George Megalogenis is a senior journalist and political commentator with The Australian newspaper, to which he also contributes the much-respected blog Meganomics, and is a regular guest on ABC TV's The Insiders. He spent over a decade in the Canberra press gallery, and is the author of Faultlines, The Longest Decade and Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit - Leadership and the End of the Reform Era. His latest book is The Australian Moment.
Both sessions are $21.50 or $19.50 concession. For more information visit www.mwf.com.au
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