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 prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott, tossing aside the mad monk’s robes, the budgie smugglers and all the other clichés to find out what kind of man – and leader – he really is.
Marr will be in conversation with veteran political journalist George Megalogenis.
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George Megalogenis
George Megalogenis is an author and journalist with more than three decades’ experience in the media. His book, The Australian Moment, won the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the 2012 Walkley ...

David Marr
David Marr’s Killing for Country, A Family Story published in 2023 tracks his great-great-grandfather’s time in the Queensland Native Police during the 1860s, the bloodiest years of the Frontier Wars. In his time as a ...
