Three Shocks
Who We Are Becoming in the 21st Century
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Three Shocks
Narrated by:
George Megalogenis
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Narrated by:
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George Megalogenis
For decades our politics has failed to keep up with a changing Australia. The federal elections of 2022 and 2025 were an overdue wake-up call to three shocks that have reshaped our national identity:
- For the first time since federation, we have a population that's majority migrants and their children
- Professional women are now the largest segment of the workforce, replacing blue-collar men
- On the world stage, both our allies and our key trade partners have proven unreliable
Together, these shocks have changed the electoral maths for our politicians. For too long both major parties operated on outdated assumptions about Australia that go back to the Howard era.
With original interviews and research, Three Shocks tells the inside story of how our leaders caught up to the times or were left behind. Labor learned how to win again by embracing our new diversity; the Liberals suffered back-to-back landslide defeats that have threatened their very existence.
These three shocks will define our national politics in the future, and how we all think about Australia in the twenty-first century.
'It sounds odd to say that a book about demographic patterns and the economics and politics of immigration made me gasp out loud on multiple pages, but there it is. This is a thrilling, revelatory contribution from a writer who is exceedingly gifted at explaining things, and never stints on the work.' Annabel Crabb, The Monthly
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