Mungo Wentworth MacCallum

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Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (born 1941), Australian journalist, is a political journalist and commentator.

He covered Australian federal politics from the Canberra Press Gallery for The Australian, The National Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and Nation Review in the 1970s and 1980s. McCallum currently writes a column for the Byron Bay Echo and frequently writes for the magazine The Monthly.

He has also authored several books, including Run, Johnny, Run written after the Australian legislative election, 2004.

His autobiographical narrative of the Australian political scene -Mungo: the man who laughs - is currently in its fourth reprint. How To Be A Megalomaniac or, Advice to a Young Politician was published in 2002 and Political Anecdotes was published in 2003. In December 2004, Duffy & Snellgrove published War and Pieces: John Howard's last election.