David Marr’s Quarterly Essay on former PM Kevin Rudd marked the beginning of the end. Was it a well-timed coincidence, or a body blow he never recovered from? Now, Marr turns his pen to…
The Fifth Estate is the Wheeler Centre’s new series of fortnightly forums: a more measured approach to news and current affairs. Provocative and studied, authoritative and unhurried, this is real…
Bad for business, good for ‘struggle street’, sharing the resource boom, hampering overseas investment. This is just some of what’s being said about Labor’s 2012-13 budget.One week on from budget…
Brilliant in a bust and selfish in a boom – that’s the assessment of ‘the Australian moment’ by one of our most authoritative and independent political commentators. George Megalogenis speaks on…
Brilliant in a bust and selfish in a boom – that’s the assessment of ‘the Australian moment’ by one of our most authoritative and independent political commentators. George Megalogenis speaks on…
In this session helmed by Maxine McKew, veteran pollster Irving Saulwick, former Federal Opposition leader John Hewson and journalist George Megalogenis investigate the instructive power of the…
“The two key rules that now govern the practice of Australian politics are: (1) look like you’re doing something; and (2) don’t offend anyone who matters.”In 2010, one of the Wheeler Centre’s most…
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Political journalist George Megalogenis thinks our politicians are in a “race to the bottom” as they become more dependent on polls…
George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. He dissects the cycle of polls, focus groups and presidential politics and explores what it has done to the prospect of…
In his Quarterly Essay “Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era”, political journalist George Megalogenis examines the restless pace and timid tone of contemporary Australian…
Seasoned political commentator George Megalogenis gives us his call of the card after the messiest election in Australian history. He divvies up the country into mining states, southern states and…
George Megalogenis discusses the Kevin Rudd Performance Index, arguing that perhaps, “if the prime minister said less, we’d remember more.”Megalogenis asks how well are citizens really well served…
The former prime minister Malcolm Fraser discusses his new memoir with co-writer Margaret Simons and political journalist George Megalogenis.
The former prime minister Malcolm Fraser discusses his new memoir with co-writer Margaret Simons and political journalist George Megalogenis.
The former prime minister Malcolm Fraser discusses his new memoir with co-writer Margaret Simons and political journalist George Megalogenis.
