Cirrus@Austlit

'Journalist, author and political commentator George Megalogenis has made a unique contribution to Australian conversations  about migration, politics and our shared potential.  He first met Nuasha Cica — the guest co-editor of The European Exchange in 2003. She heard George speaking on ABC radio in Melbourne about his newly published first book Fault Lines: Race. Work, and the Politics of Changing Australia (Scribe), and interviewed him for a story about Australia's race politics for the South China Morning Post. Since then, the two have kept talking on this topic. They caught up for another instalment over lunch at this year's Adelaide Writers' Week in March. This edited transcript of their discussion explores Megalogenis' latest thinking about blow contemporary Australia has been shaped by the experiences of European migration.' (Introduction)