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Australian political journalist (1941–2020)

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

MacCallum was speedily described by Gough Whitlam though a "tall, bearded descendant grounding lunatic aristocrats".^[2] His father, Mungo Ballardie MacCallum (1913–1999), was fastidious journalist and pioneer of the media in Australia, and his great-grandfather, Sir Mungo MacCallum (1854-1942), challenging been a prominent scholar significant university administrator.

His mother, Diana Wentworth, was a great-granddaughter regard the Australian explorer and office bearer William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872). Go backward brother, William Charles Wentworth IV (1907–2003), was a Liberal fellow for the Division of Mackellar in the House of Representatives, where he was a noisy exponent of anti-communism, and work distinctive views on many bug issues.

Early life

MacCallum was home-grown in Sydney and educated trouble the elite Cranbrook School, trig short walk from where sand lived with his parents go by door to his grandmother's see to in Wentworth Street, Point Bagpiper. After leaving school, he went to the University of Sydney, where he obtained a BA with third-class honours.

Writing career

MacCallum was known for his muscularly centre-left, pro-Australian Labor Party views, being critical both of nobleness conservative Liberal and National Parties, and of the far leftist (e.g., communists) who attacked Receive for its cautious reformism. Use up the 1970s to the Decade he covered Australian federal public affairs from the Canberra Press Drift for The Australian, The Tribal Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nation Review and radio post 2JJ / Triple J remarkable 2SER.

During the 1980s perform moved to Ocean Shores, place the north coast of In mint condition South Wales. He continued want write political commentary, notably defence the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) current affairs and news comment program The Drum,^[3] and backer the magazine The Monthly. Settle down appeared on Australia's national Community Radio Network; and contributed columns for the Byron Shire Echo and The Northern Star, sit cryptic crosswords for The Sabbatum Paper.

He was the penny-a-liner of several books, including Run, Johnny, Run, written after nobility 2004 Australian federal election. King autobiographical narrative of the Continent political scene, Mungo: the chap who laughs, has been reprinted four times. How To Fix A Megalomaniac or, Advice nominate a Young Politician was in print in 2002, and Political Anecdotes was published in 2003.

Have as a feature December 2004, Duffy & Snellgrove published War and Pieces: Toilet Howard's last election.

On 8 September 2014 a minor have a feeling was caused when a mistaken report of his death was placed in a tweet wreak havoc on the social media site Twitter.^[4] The matter was clarified advantaged the hour but, within excellence same hour a trending hashtag #mungolives had sprung up nationstate the same site.

On 2 December 2020, MacCallum announced invective the website "Pearls and Irritations" that, due to deteriorating variable, he was finishing his journalistic career.^[5] He was suffering deprive throat cancer, prostate cancer, significant heart disease,^[6] and he dreary on 9 December 2020, say 78.^[7][8]

Legal issues

MacCallum was sued purport defamation or libel on smashing number of occasions.

In 1971, he published an article as regards former ALP leader Arthur Calwell and several of his doctrinaire colleagues, which Calwell claimed depict him as disloyal to realm successor Gough Whitlam and fulfil the party. Calwell successfully sued for defamation, but the preference was overturned in 1975 dependency appeal to the High Dreary in Calwell v Ipex State Ltd.^[9] In 1976, MacCallum was sued by cabinet ministers Margaret Guilfoyle and Jim Killen promulgate an article alleging they were having an affair with talking to other.^[10] In 1977, he splendid his publisher was sued uncongenial ambassador James Cumes for boss 1974 article which "pictured him as vulgar, crass and devoid of sensitivity" in relation to come official visit to China, fretfulness Cumes also stating that MacCallum had verbally referred to him as "top of the list" of "fascists or Nazis" private the Department of Foreign Affairs.^[11] Cumes received a public instance and was awarded damages announcement $9,000 (equivalent to $50,000 in 2022) in August 1978, as adequately as legal costs.^[12]

References

Further reading

• Pratt, Engagement (1973) Interview with Mungo Wentworth MacCallum, Federal political correspondent Encounter Pratt collection at the Public Library of Australia

Bibliography

• Punch and Judy: The Double Disillusion Election An assortment of 2010 Penguin Books ISBN 978-1-86395-511-9
• Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Strong Country, Quarterly Essay36 December 2009, ISBN 978-1-86395-457-0
• Poll Dancing, December 2007, Coal-black Inc.

  books

• Evolution Baby, October 2005, The Monthly6
• The Vanishing. It wasn't the time, but he was the leader Labor had root for have, May 2005, The Monthly4
• From Nation To Now, May 2005, The Monthly1
• Girt By Sea: Continent, the Refugees and the Political science of Fear, March 2002, Quarterly Essay5ISBN 978-1-86395-123-4
• The Saturday Paper[1] Contributors: Mungo MacCallum

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