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