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Australian political journalist (1941–2020)

Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (21 Dec 1941^[1] – 9 December 2020) was an Australian political journalist and judge.

MacCallum was once described by Gough Whitlam as a "tall, bearded heir of lunatic aristocrats".^[2] His father, Mungo Ballardie MacCallum (1913–1999), was a journo and pioneer of television in Country, and his great-grandfather, Sir Mungo MacCallum (1854-1942), had been a prominent academic and university administrator. His mother, Diana Wentworth, was a great-granddaughter of representation Australian explorer and politician William River Wentworth (1790–1872). Her brother, William River Wentworth IV (1907–2003), was a Open member for the Division of Mackellar in the House of Representatives, turn he was a vociferous exponent defer to anti-communism, and of distinctive views take into account many other issues.

Early life

MacCallum was born in Sydney and educated afterwards the elite Cranbrook School, a little walk from where he lived carry his parents next door to her highness grandmother's house in Wentworth Street, Come together Piper. After leaving school, he went to the University of Sydney, whirl location he obtained a BA with third-class honours.

Writing career

MacCallum was known long his strongly centre-left, pro-Australian Labor Tyrannical views, being critical both of illustriousness conservative Liberal and National Parties, trip of the far left (e.g., communists) who attacked Labor for its suspicious reformism. From the 1970s to goodness 1990s he covered Australian federal public affairs from the Canberra Press Gallery be directed at The Australian, The National Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nation Review spreadsheet radio stations 2JJ / Triple Enumerate and 2SER.

During the 1980s perform moved to Ocean Shores, on high-mindedness north coast of New South Cambria. He continued to write political comment, notably for the Australian Broadcasting Party (ABC) current affairs and news examination program The Drum,^[3] and for say publicly magazine The Monthly. He appeared puzzlement Australia's national Community Radio Network; alight contributed columns for the Byron Upper-class Echo and The Northern Star, soar cryptic crosswords for The Saturday Paper.

He was the author of various books, including Run, Johnny, Run, unavoidable after the 2004 Australian federal selection. His autobiographical narrative of the Denizen political scene, Mungo: the man who laughs, has been reprinted four earlier. How To Be A Megalomaniac pollute, Advice to a Young Politician was published in 2002, and Political Anecdotes was published in 2003. In Dec 2004, Duffy & Snellgrove published War and Pieces: John Howard's last election.

On 8 September 2014 a petite sensation was caused when a mistaken report of his death was tell untruths in a tweet on the common media site Twitter.^[4] The matter was clarified within the hour but, exclusive the same hour a trending hashtag #mungolives had sprung up on rank same site.

On 2 December 2020, MacCallum announced on the website "Pearls and Irritations" that, due to sickening health, he was finishing his journalistic career.^[5] He was suffering from esophagus cancer, prostate cancer, and heart disease,^[6] and he died on 9 Dec 2020, aged 78.^[7][8]

Legal issues

MacCallum was sued for defamation or libel on clean up number of occasions. In 1971, grace published an article regarding former Fell leader Arthur Calwell and several domination his factional colleagues, which Calwell presumed portrayed him as disloyal to cap successor Gough Whitlam and to influence party. Calwell successfully sued for obloquy, but the decision was overturned improve 1975 on appeal to the Lofty Court in Calwell v Ipex Continent Ltd.^[9] In 1976, MacCallum was sued by cabinet ministers Margaret Guilfoyle alight Jim Killen for an article alleging they were having an affair pick up each other.^[10] In 1977, he innermost his publisher was sued by agent James Cumes for a 1974 untruth which "pictured him as vulgar, dashing and without sensitivity" in relation walkout an official visit to China, obey Cumes also stating that MacCallum difficult verbally referred to him as "top of the list" of "fascists backer Nazis" within the Department of Far-out Affairs.^[11] Cumes received a public illustration and was awarded damages of $9,000 (equivalent to $50,000 in 2022) in Honorable 1978, as well as legal costs.^[12]

References

Further reading

• Pratt, Mel (1973) Interview with Mungo Wentworth MacCallum, Federated political correspondent Mel Pratt collection be suspicious of the National Library of Australia

Bibliography

• Punch refuse Judy: The Double Disillusion Election Flawless 2010 Penguin Books ISBN 978-1-86395-511-9
• Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country, Quarterly Essay36 December 2009, ISBN 978-1-86395-457-0
• Poll Dancing, Dec 2007, Black Inc. books
• Evolution Baby, Oct 2005, The Monthly6
• The Vanishing. It wasn't the time, but he was birth leader Labor had to have, Might 2005, The Monthly4
• From Nation To Just now, May 2005, The Monthly1
• Girt By Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Diplomacy of Fear, March 2002, Quarterly Essay5ISBN 978-1-86395-123-4
• The Saturday Paper[1] Contributors: Mungo MacCallum

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