Political journalist George Megalogenis has taken out the Prime Minister’s literary award in the non-fiction category for his book The Australian Moment.
The award ceremony was held in Brisbane on Thursday night with the Arts Minister Tony Burke dishing out the awards worth $80,000 each to the six winners as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was away on business.
In his book, Mr Megalogenis credits the now Prime Minister of Australia Mr Rudd with steering ”Australia through the Great Recession”.
The Australian Moment 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 GFC to become the last developed nation standing in the 2000s.