Mungo Wentworth MacCallum
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Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (born 21 December 1941[1]), Australian journalist, is a political journalist and commentator.
Mungo MacCallum was educated at Cranbrook School Sydney in the elite Eastern Suburbs, a short walk from where he lived with his mother and father in his grandmother's house in Wentworth Street, Point Piper.
On his father's side, he came from a line of journalists, and on his mother's side Mungo MacCallum is a great-great grandson of the Australian explorer and politician William Wentworth (1790-1872), (William Charles Wentworth). This makes him a nephew of William Charles Wentworth IV (1907-2003), a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives (1949-77) and a virulent anti-communist. He and his uncle, while agreeing on certain questions, were fundamentally of different political inclinations.
After leaving school, Mungo MacCallum went to Sydney University where he obtained a BA with third class honours. He admits that, if he had worked harder, he could have done better.
Mungo MacCallum 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. MacCallum currently writes a column for The Byron Shire Echo and frequently writes for the magazine The Monthly. Mungo MacCallum is also known for his centre-left, strongly pro-ALP views, being critical both of the conservative Liberal and National Parties, and of the far Left (eg, Communists) who attack the Australian Labor Party for its cautious reformism.
He has also authored several books, including Run, Johnny, Run written after the Australian federal election, 2004.
Mungo MacCallum is a resident of Ocean Shores, on the north coast of New South Wales.
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.
[edit] References
- Pratt, Mel (1973) Interview with Mungo Wentworth MacCallum, Federal political correspondent Mel Pratt collection at the National Library of Australia
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