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The Australian Moment
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Author : George Megalogenis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 2017-01-03
The Australian Moment written by George Megalogenis and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012 The book of the TV series Making Australia Great There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our brains in a boom. Despite a lingering inability to acknowledge our achievements at home, the rest of the world asks: how did we get it right? George Megalogenis, one of our most respected political and economic writers, 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. As a result, whatever happens next, we're as well positioned as any to survive the ongoing rumblings of the Great Recession. Drawing on newly declassified documents, fresh interviews with our former prime ministers and a unique ability to bring the numbers to life, Megalogenis describes how, at just the right time, the Australian people became more farsighted than our politicians. We stopped spending before the rest of the world, and at the top of a boom voted out a government that was throwing around the biggest bribes ever offered. The Australian Moment is packed with original insight, challenging our often partisan selective memories and revealing how our leadership and community have underestimated each other's contribution to the nation's resilience. With a new afterword and appendix for the 2015 edition.
The Australian Moment
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Author : George Megalogenis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2012
The Australian Moment written by George Megalogenis and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
'Likely to become the essential short work on modern Australia' Don Watson'Megalogenis is Australia's best explainer ...... A brilliant read' Annabel CrabbWinner of the2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our brains in a boom. Despite a lingering inability to acknowledge our achievements at home, the rest of the world asks- how did we get it right?George Megalogenis, one of our most respected political and economic writers, 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. As a result, whatever happens next, we're as well positioned as any to survive the ongoing rumblings of the Great Recession. Drawing on newly declassified documents, fresh interviews with our former prime ministers and a unique ability to bring the numbers to life, Megalogenis describes how, at just the right time, the Australian people became more farsighted than our politicians. We stopped spending before the rest of the world, and at the top of a boom voted out a government that was throwing around the biggest bribes ever offered. The Australian Momentis packed with original insight, challenging our often partisan selective memories and revealing how our leadership and community have underestimated each other's contribution to the nation's resilience.'This man is perhaps the sanest journalist in Australia. He believes in facts and figures. He has a unique grasp of politics in all its messy detail. The result is this splendid account of the great reforms of the last 40 years that have made Australia, he says, 'the last rich nation standing in the 21st century'.' David Marr 'Megalogenis has the rare gift of being both comprehensive and detailed. He identifies big-picture global trends and demonstrates them forensically. The Australian Moment is him at his insightful, meticulous best. Anyone interested in Australia's political history and future, anyone who wants to understand our economic and cultural development, has no reasonable choice but to imbibe this. It is indispensably important.' Waleed Aly'Arguably the most important work on Australian economics and modern political history of our generation' Australian Book Review'Probably the best exposition of Australia's political history over the period of market liberal reform, and from the viewpoint of the reformers, that we have seen, or are likely to' John Quiggin, Canberra Times'Stimulating ... It is a tribute to the intellectual power of the book that it provokes the reader to consider seriously the compelling counter-argument that, instead of continuing to progress, we have in some crucial ways squandered our inheritance' Sydney Morning Herald'The Australian Momentreminds us that politics really does matter because the power of government matters ... George Megalogenis is no ordinary journalist' Canberra Times'Lucid and flowing ... One of the best communicators in Australia today' Courier-Mail'Wise, considered and incisive ... a lucid and penetrating portrait of Australia during the past 40 years' Herald Sun'Highly recommended' Good Reading
Balancing Act
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Author : George Megalogenis
language : en
Publisher: Quarterly Essay
Release Date : 2016-02-29
Balancing Act written by George Megalogenis and has been published by Quarterly Essay this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with Political Science categories.
In this urgent essay, George Megalogenis argues that Australia risks becoming globalisation’s next and most unnecessary victim. The next shock, whenever it comes, will find us with our economic guard down, and a political system that has shredded its authority. Megalogenis outlines the challenge for Malcolm Turnbull and his government. Our tax system is unfair and we have failed to invest in infrastructure and education. Both sides of politics are clinging defensively to an old model because it tells them a reassuring story of Australian success. But that model has been exhausted by capitalism’s extended crisis and the end of the mining boom. Trusting to the market has left us with gridlocked cities, growing inequality and a corporate sector that feels no obligation to pay tax. It is time to redraw the line between market and state. Balancing Act is a passionate look at the politics of change and renewal, and a bold call for active government. It took World War II to provide the energy and focus for the reconstruction that laid the foundation for modern Australia. Will it take another crisis to prompt a new reconstruction? “Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession.” —George Megalogenis, Balancing Act This issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 60, Political Amnesia, from Bernie Fraser, Amanda Walsh, Tarah Barzanji, Allan Behm, Jennifer Rayner, Anne Tiernan, Graham Evans, John Quiggin, Scott Ludlam, Michael Keating, Stephen Sedgwick, and Laura Tingle
The Rise And Fall Of Australia
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Author : Nick Bryant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08-19
The Rise And Fall Of Australia written by Nick Bryant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-19 with Australia categories.
A forensic look at the Lucky Country, from the inside and outside. Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession - proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented acclaim. But never before has its politics been so brutal, narrow and facile, as well as being such a global laughing stock. A positive national story is at odds with a deeply unattractive Canberra story. The country should be enjoying The Australian Moment, so vividly described by the best - selling author George Megalogenis. But that description may turn out to be inadvertently precise. It could end up being just that: a fleeting moment. At present the country seems to be in speedy regression, with the nation's leaders, on both sides, mired in relatively small problems, such as the arrival of boat people, rather than mapping out a larger and more inspiring national future. In The Rise and Fall of Australia, BBC correspondent and author Nick Bryant offers an outsider's take on the great paradox of modern - day Australian life: of how the country has got richer at a time when its politics have become more impoverished. In this thoroughly entertaining and thought - provoking book, dealing with politics, racism, sexism, the country's place in the region and the world, culture and sport, the author argues that Australia needs to discard the out - dated language used to describe itself, to push back against Lucky Country thinking, to celebrate how the cultural creep has replaced the cultural cringe and to stop negatively typecasting itself. Rejecting most of the national stereotypes, Nick Bryant sets out to describe the new Australia rather than the mythic country so often misunderstood not just by foreigners but Australians themselves.
Australia S Second Chance
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Author : George Megalogenis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 2017-07-17
Australia S Second Chance written by George Megalogenis and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now we're back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the world's great nations? Our country's most insightful big-picture commentator, George Megalogenis crunches the numbers and weaves our history into a riveting argument, brilliantly chronicling our dialogue with the world and bringing welcome insight into the urgent question of who we are, and what we can become.
Quarterly Essay 69 Moment Of Truth
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Author : Mark McKenna
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Quarterly Essay 69 Moment Of Truth written by Mark McKenna and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with History categories.
Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history wars, and that truth-telling about the past will be liberating and healing. This is an urgent essay about a nation’s moment of truth. ‘The time for pitting white against black, shame against pride, and one people’s history against another’s, has had its day. After nearly fifty years of deeply divisive debates over the country’s foundation and its legacy for Indigenous Australians, Australia stands at a crossroads – we either make the commonwealth stronger and more complete through an honest reckoning with the past, or we unmake the nation by clinging to triumphant narratives in which the violence inherent in the nation’s foundation is trivialised.’ —Mark McKenna, Moment of Truth
The Longest Decade
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Author : George Megalogenis
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2009-04-01
The Longest Decade written by George Megalogenis and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Political Science categories.
"Paul Keating and John Howard altered the nation's body-clock. Between them, they dominated 30 years of power, as both treasurers and prime ministers. Typically, they have been seen as only antagonists with competeing visions of Australia and its place in the world"--Provided by publisher.
Great Moments In Australian History
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Author : Jonathan King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Great Moments In Australian History written by Jonathan King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Australia categories.
Now Is The Psychological Moment
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Author : Stephen Wilks
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2020-10-12
Now Is The Psychological Moment written by Stephen Wilks and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880–1961) – surgeon, Country Party leader, treasurer and prime minister – was perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in twentieth-century Australia. Over decades, he made determined efforts to seize ‘the psychological moment’, and thereby realise his vision of a decentralised, regionalised and rationally ordered nation. Page’s unique dreaming of a very different Australia encompassed new states, hydroelectricity, economic planning, cooperative federalism and rural universities. His story casts light on the wider place in history of visions of national development. He was Australia’s most important advocate of developmentalism, the important yet little-studied stream of thought that assumes that governments can lead the nation to realise its economic potential. His audacious synthesis of ideas delineated and stretched the Australian political imagination. Page’s rich career confirms that Australia has long inspired popular ideals of national development, but also suggests that their practical implementation was increasingly challenged during the twentieth century. Effervescent, intelligent and somewhat eccentric, Page was one of Australia’s great optimists. Few Australian leaders who stood for so much have since been so neglected.
The Australian Women S Weekly
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Author : Katie Ekberg
language : en
Publisher: Australian Women's Weekly
Release Date : 2008
The Australian Women S Weekly written by Katie Ekberg and has been published by Australian Women's Weekly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Australia categories.
In October 2008, Australia celebrates the 75th birthday of a publishing icon: "For more than seven decades, The Australian Women's Weekly has resonated with generations of Australian women and men - there's barely a family whose life hasn't been touched by this extraordinary magazine at some stage. To celebrate this milestone, we are producing a beautiful gift book. We hope you join us in celebrating this special moment." Deborah Thomas, Editorial Director - The Australian Women's Weekly This book celebrates 75 years of The Weekly with historic stories from The Weekly's first edition in 1933 through to the stories in today's contemporary magazine. There are stories to make you laugh, to make you sad, to bring back memories, to inspire and enquire, to make you proud to be Australian, and stories that trace the nation's history. With familiar faces and familiar places this is a book you will want to take home.