{"product_id":"australian-moment","title":"The Australian Moment","description":"Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book of the TV series \u003ci\u003eMaking Australia Great\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Australian Moment\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With a new afterword and appendix for the 2015 edition","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Australian Moment","offer_id":50778970947781,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-14-378350-3.jpg?v=1792701189","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/australian-moment","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}