As a journalist of some renown, you get the feeling that George Megalogenis (Dream Panelist in Thursday's closing session) would probably get asked a lot of questions about the journalistic profession.
As a political commentator who’s quite adept at analyzing political personalities, he probably also gets asked a lot of questions about political personalities. Given the predilection of current and former Australian prime ministers towards dabbling in journalism, it’s only natural that the two occasionally overlap.
This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVKgeNp6qD8) is a great example of George’s thinking applied to politicians as journalists. (It's an excerpt from a longer clip from a
Centre for Advanced Journalism panel session.)
In short, he asks himself (and answers) what kind of journalists Hawke, Keating, Howard and Rudd would be. Who would get too big for the newspaper? Who would make himself available to every type of media that will take him? It’s a good example of the quality of thought we can look forward to at the 2009 AMSRS Conference (without even mentioning entertainment value).
Perhaps an interesting question to raise at the Conference could be what kind of researcher might Hawke, Keating, Howard and Rudd be?
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And another good game would be.
If Kevin Rudd was a researcher, what kind of researcher would he be?
If John Howard had pursued a career in the research industry, what role would he have now...?
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