George Megalogenis

Journalist and author George Megalogenis spent 11 years in the Canberra press gallery between 1988 and 1999 before moving to Melbourne as a senior writer with The Australian. He won this year's Melbourne Press Club Quill award for best columnist. The judges' citation said, in part: 'His analysis of social and economic trends are anchored in the "real world" and whether writing about the housing boom or the war in Iraq, his columns are well researched and leave the reader interested and at times entertained'. George's book Faultlines, race, work and the politics of changing Australia was published by Scribe in December.