Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

Mungo MacCallum is a veteran political journalist and commentator. His books include Run Johnny Run, Poll Dancing, and Punch and Judy. mungomccallum@staging-johnmenadue.kinsta.cloud

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Mungo MacCallum: The collection

Mungo MacCallum: The collection

He who laughs has not yet heard the terrible tidings....  A collection of stories from the late, great, veteran political reporter Mungo MacCallum: Australia's true journalistic believer.   https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/mungo-maccallum-the-patience-of-our-first-nation-while-remarkable-is-not-inexhaustible/   https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/mungo-maccallum-cook-and-the-continuing-culture-wars/   https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/mungo-maccallum-in-the-secret-world-secrecy-is-always-the-default-option/ https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/mungo-maccallum-labor-accepts-ritual-humiliation/   Read more at Mungo MacCallum's P&I author page, here: https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/author/mungo-maccallum-decd/

Most viewed articles 2020: Gladys' arrogance paves the way for Federal ICAC (Oct 20, 2020)

The most remarkable thing about the revelation of Gladys Berejiklian’s love life was that it was remarkable at all.

That's all she wrote

I never thought I’d say it, but I can no longer go on working.

Australia against China: a face-off which must be avoided

It may be a statement of the bleeding obvious, but a face-off with the People’s Republic of China would not be a good idea.

Is Morrison finally nearing the tipping point on climate?

He would rather forego his parliamentary pension than admit it, but our prime minister is unobtrusively softening his hardline stance on climate change.

The national anthem is back on the playlist

Our national anthem is back on the playlist, and as always for the wrong reasons.

We were warned about the Brererton report - it is still shocking

Scott Morrison warned us that we would be shocked by the Brereton report on alleged war crimes and this is one promise he has kept.

Joel Fitzgibbon and Labor's environment policy

Joel Fitzgibbon’s resignation from the front bench does not change the policy of the Labor Party. nor its leadership. But it does change the mechanics.

Ministers at a very public bar

In the old days, no one called parliament house a toxic bubble. The more usual term was a smorgasbord, a sumptuous spread provided by the men hoping to get their ends in, which meant almost all of them.

Planet America: A voting system in a world of its own

Many more Americans voted against Donald Trump than voted for him – millions more. But nearly as many did not vote at all. And the explanation of why they failed to do so is bad news for what is left of democracy.

Facing Conservative Commentators Up to the Truth About Trump

The damage to convention, the rule of law, honesty, integrity and decency that Trump has wreaked – and is still wreaking – will be harder to repair.

Trump. The mendacious wheeler-dealer

A crunch day for Australia on Tuesday – and not just for the Melbourne Cup, vital as that is for the nation’s well-being. November 4 will determine whether the United States of America regains its sanity or embarks on another quadrennium of demented Trumpery.

Cartier watches and Morrison's pet rock.

Morrison’s stalwart declaration of independence on climate changer sounded more like a petulant plea: “stop the world, I want to get off.”

The government, in due course, acted promptly

In the far-off innocent days before the spin doctors decreed that backbenchers should cease thinking for themselves and instead parrot the talking points devised to avoid saying anything meaningful at all,  a few brave souls were prepared to respond to questions more or less spontaneously.

We have just about given up on the mainstream media.

For Labor, there is no point in getting into a fight you will never win. The Murdoch myrmidons will always be their enemy, and since they have become invulnerable – like the banks, they are too big to fail -- they have to be accommodated.

Gladys' arrogance paves the way for Federal ICAC

The most remarkable thing about the revelation of Gladys Berejiklian’s love life was that it was remarkable at all.

The altar boys at The Australian

The usually reliable NewsPoll last week delivered a bombshell as unexpected as it was unwelcome to its Murdochratic media proprietors

There’s one sure thing about Josh Frydenberg’s budget – it is shovel ready

Warehouses have been emptied to find the shovels (and the wheelbarrows, the backhoes, the bulldozers and the front-end loaders) needed to move the mountains of cash from the invisible lenders through the Treasury to the pockets of the punters.

Scott Morrison plans to launch Matthias Cormann on to the global stage.

Following the long and successful run in the provinces ScoMo believes his retiring Finance Minister is ready to take on the world and has nominated him to the prestigious role of Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.He will be remembered for his longevity, but not much else, not through a lack of diligence but because it went with the job.

Three important considerations for the budget: jobs, jobs and jobs

The straight talking New South Wales Premier, Neville Wran,  set the scene in one terse sentence. “Delegates,” he rasped, ”this summit is about three things: jobs, jobs and jobs.”

Susan Ryan

Susan Ryan was more than a feminist icon and achiever, Labor’s first woman cabinet minister and the model for all those who have followed her.

Angus Taylor's energy roadmap: national interest second

At least the latest energy plan - the coalition’s 22nd, and counting – is not all about gas.

What is unforgivable about the Victorian shut down policies is that they are working

The indefatigable freedom fighters crusading to liberate the shut-down in Victoria are quite right. The restrictions are stultifying, draconian, totalitarian. They are intolerable in a democracy, an affront to Australia as we know it.

Morrison's choice: blimps and gas-fired power

If Scott Morrison ever went back to his old job of promoting tourism and needed to ramp up the travel industry, he would put his money on blimps. So gas is obviously the go. A sensible middle course, obviously the best option, even if it is the wrong one.

Freeing the indigenous flag

It is a flag that can be admired and cherished, a beacon for reconciliation and beyond. It is, in the truest sense, an Australian institution.

Isn't less government what the conservatives really want?

The commonwealth has unraveled, federation has unfederated. So why aren’t the Tories cheering?

It's too late for Juukan Gorge but Warragamba dam is on the horizon

Shakepeare said: “Tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard.” And indeed, there is some satisfaction in seeing the petard that hoisted the Juukan Gorge also sending some of Rio Tinto’s top brass flying out of the executive wing.

Falling into depression

It has always been argued that gas, while not a squeaky clean fuel, is a least a better bet than coal. But now it turns out that gas may be even dirtier, because the methane leaks that cannot be contained will probably nullify any advantages from emissions of coal.

McMahon, Abbott and Morrison.

Has Tony Abbott surpassed McMahon as the worst of our worst?

Never give a Sukkar an even break

Readers of the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald and viewers of the Nine network will have been alerted to the self-destruction of the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party – the jewel in the crown, as the founder, Robert Menzies, once called it.

Vale Richard di Natale.

Richard di Natale left his party much as he led it without fuss or fanfare, quiet, reasonable, and always at a certain distance from the turmoil of parliamentary conflict.

Scott Morrison's marketing of a vaccine is true to form

Morrison is offering not a solution but a thought bubble, something to keep us going until some other rabbit can be pulled out of his well worn hat of illusions. But the fact that it has already been dismissed as so much puffery by both AstraZeneca itself and by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories who are supposed to deliver the vaccine to the masses is not encouraging.

We have the least worst Minister in charge of Aged Care

Depending on your choice of cliche the aged care portfolio may be seen as a minefield, a poisoned chalice or a suicide mission – a high risk activity best avoided.

Morrison can't bluff his way out of the aged care crisis

I will turn 80 next year, which means that the issue of aged care is rapidly assuming more than academic significance.

The Ruby Princess fiasco, deaths and damage.

This was not just another Covid cluster – it was a full on Covid cluster fuck, brought to you in glorious 20-20 hindsight and quadrophonic dodging and denial.

The federal government is hiding under the covers

Having tried pleas, threats, restrictions, lockdowns, fines and closures in vain, our political masters are now apparently cutting to the melodramatic climax: scare the living crap out of us writes Mungo MacCallum.

University Failures and Canberra parsimony.

Cynical, short-sighted and gutless – everything a proper university should eschew. But perhaps the teachers have been taking lessons from their political masters. If so, both deserve a fail.

Some good news emerging from the bad

Another month, another setback – several, unfortunately. With preparations for the budget being finalised in an atmosphere of quiet desperation, COVID-19 is now clearly out of control.

It’s a terrible thing to say, but Joel Fitzgibbon is rapidly turning into Labor’s answer to Barnaby Joyce

We hasten to add that we are not comparing him to the Beetrooter’s personal failings, but his drift away from the political mainstream.

A second wave of relief for Morrison

We would never dream of accusing Scott Morrison of being relieved by the onset of the second wave of coronavirus, but nonetheless it has postponed a nagging Jobseeker problem for him.

An obituary for our native flora,fauna and habitat.

The essential reform...the appointment of “an independent cop on the beat” to remove politics from a system infested by donors and lobbyists, mainly miners and developers.

Economic recovery is their only target, but do they have a plan?

The consensus is in: the economy rules, okay? Finally, what remains of the national cabinet is essentially united.

The Queen's plausible denial is risible

The queen did not pull the trigger. But she, her family and her closest advisers were well and truly in the loop during the events of 1975. And since 1975 was all about politics, the neutrality of the crown is irrevocably compromised.

A second wave of economic stimulus

If this isn’t the dreaded second wave of COVID-19, it will do until the real thing comes along.

The absurdity of border protection

Closing borders never really works. The Great Wall of China eventually crumbled and in modern times there were always trickles through the Iron Curtain (incorporating the Berlin Wall) until the trickles became an outbreak.

Morrison and Sebastian, exemplars of Australian art

I have nothing against pop singers, Some of them are very nice people, generous, tolerant, kind to children and dogs. And they give pleasure to many Australians.

A win’s a win in Eden-Monaro

A messy and unedifying campaign – gaffes, sabotage and dirty tricks. And a pretty ordinary result in the Eden-Monaro by-election.

Our dream run over COVID has come to an end

Australia awoke last week to the strains of Spike Milligan’s poignant refrain, “I’m walking backwards to Christmas.”

Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Universities are not, and must never be, walled citadels – protected enclaves sheltering from the societies that surround and nurture them.

Bloody Vics!

Déjà vu all over again. In the dim, dark ages before I even arrived in Canberra, I was writing stories about the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party – its bullying exclusion, its factional resistance to change, its impotent failure to rise from opposition to offer its disillusioned supporters even a sniff of electoral victory at either a state or federal level.

Earlier Articles (351 more)

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2020-06-22 What to do with monuments! indigenous-affairs, politics
2020-06-16 Hypothetical protests cost not worth the hyperventilation politics
2020-06-15 There has to be better reason for a beer and a barbecue. politics
2020-06-10 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The patience of our first nation, while remarkable, is not … indigenous-affairs, politics, topfive
2020-06-08 The G7 and Trump's protege politics
2020-06-02 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Scott Morrison's cooing of doves. politics
2020-06-01 MUNGO MACALLUM. Thanks to Jenny Hocking's indefatigable efforts, national pride … politics
2020-05-26 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The miracle of being two-faced and saving both faces politics
2020-05-25 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Angus Taylor’s thought bubbles: from the second rate to the … politics
2020-05-19 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The gruesome twosome’s crystal ball politics
2020-05-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Vale Comrade Jack Mundey politics
2020-05-12 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The false promise of a COVIDSafe economy economy, politics
2020-05-11 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Eden-Monaro: For whom the bellwether chimes ring politics
2020-05-05 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The COVID-19 App politics
2020-05-04 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Cook and the continuing culture wars. politics
2020-04-28 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Time to get back in the water politics
2020-04-27 MUNGO MACCALLUM Turnbull's Quo Vadis politics
2020-04-21 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The Cost of a Job. politics
2020-04-20 MUNGO MACCALLUM. George Pell and the faithful choristers at The Australian. politics
2020-04-14 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Snapback politics
2020-04-13 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Science and modelling. politics
2020-04-07 MUNGO MACCALLUM. JobKeeper, perhaps not too little and not too late politics
2020-04-06 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-Patriotism is Paramount politics
2020-03-31 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Confusion beyond parody. politics
2020-03-30 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Team Australia on the Corona virus politics
2020-03-24 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-The personal and social problems of isolation. politics
2020-03-23 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-Confusing and often self-contradictory messages on Covid-19 health, politics
2020-03-17 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-Morrison's announceathon. politics
2020-03-16 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Peter Dutton is human after all politics
2020-03-10 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Morrison's Clayton's Solution politics
2020-03-09 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Porky Pies politics
2020-03-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-Scott Morrison is not one to let a chance go by politics
2020-03-02 MUNGO MACCALLUM. In the secret world, secrecy is always the default option. politics
2020-02-25 MUNGO MACALLUM. Avoid the problem by changing the subject. politics
2020-02-24 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The balancing act is becoming more precarious. politics
2020-02-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Don't rely on evidence in climate change. politics
2020-02-17 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The Gap report.Hopes dashed within minutes. indigenous-affairs
2020-02-11 The Nats and Barnaby politics
2020-02-10 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The Culture Wars continue politics
2020-02-04 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The Marketeer politics
2020-02-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Bridget McKenzie and the subversion of public funds. politics
2020-01-28 MUNGO MACCULLUM. Our prime minister knows that most of his ministers are past … politics
2020-01-27 MUNGO MACULLUM. The Land of Hopeless Tories politics
2020-01-22 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The mob has found him out. politics
2020-01-14 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-The Veil of the Temple is Rent in Twain politics
2020-01-07 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- A Tin Eared Prime Minister politics
2020-01-06 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Fed up with pious negligence. politics
2019-12-31 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-There is no reason to believe that Scott Morrison is becoming a … politics
2019-12-30 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-And so, gritting our teeth and holding our noses, we prepare to … politics
2019-12-24 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Our economy is enjoying global tail winds ,not head winds as … politics
2019-12-23 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- The trolls at The Australian and SmoKo politics
2019-12-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM.-Greta Thunberg politics
2019-12-16 MUNGO MACCALLUM.- Delivering on threadbare policies. politics
2019-10-21 Australia plummets below Greece politics
2019-10-15 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison kowtows to Trump politics
2019-10-14 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Albanese risks making Rudd's mistake. politics
2019-10-08 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  Reserve Bank gives up on Morrison politics
2019-10-07 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  Morrison joins the dark side. politics
2019-10-01 MUNGO MACCALUM. Morrison shock troops chase Greta climate, politics
2019-09-30 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Tribalism runs riot politics
2019-09-24 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison joins the conga line. defence
2019-09-23 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Government rakes in the tax. politics
2019-09-17 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Proud to be dumb. politics
2019-09-16 MUNGO MACCALLUM. How good is Gladys? politics
2019-09-10 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Economy circles the drain. politics
2019-09-09 Dutton on a power trip politics
2019-09-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Liberals make a mess out of politics. politics
2019-09-02 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison falls into a dunny and smells like a rose. politics
2019-08-27 Morrison like a salesman talking through a screen door. politics
2019-08-26 A genuinely good man. politics
2019-08-20 Scott Morrison voted off the Pacific islands climate
2019-08-19 A conference of moaners in Sydney politics
2019-08-13 Morrison prepares for war politics
2019-08-12 Indigenous leaders draw line in sand indigenous-affairs
2019-08-06 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Hollow man starts his honeymoon. politics
2019-08-05 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Gambling stench hits nostrils. politics
2019-07-30 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Labor accepts ritual humiliation. politics
2019-07-29 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  Cultural warriors caught in conflict of loathing. politics
2019-07-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Coalition's conflict of disloyalties on health. health
2019-07-22 MUNGO MacCALLUM. We came in peace for all mankind! politics
2019-07-16 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison wants Wyatt to shut up on Indigenous Australians politics
2019-07-15 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Supreme Court sets Albanese a real test. politics
2019-07-09 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  Morrison climbs aboard Plan A politics
2019-07-08 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  Morrison cranks out surplus fetish economy
2019-07-02 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Union movement has never been more important. politics
2019-07-01 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The exhumations have resumed. politics
2019-06-25 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Peak Crazy of Morrison and Dutton. politics
2019-06-24 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Flat earthers and 'The Australian'. climate
2019-06-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Ramping up the anti union campaign. politics
2019-06-17 MUNGO MACCALLUM - What Bob Hawke meant by aspiration. politics
2019-06-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Our freedom is at risk. politics
2019-06-10 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Israel Folau and the problem with fundamentalist religion. politics
2019-06-04 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Overburdened with lightweights. politics
2019-06-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Government collective IQ shrinks further. politics
2019-05-28 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Albo has authenticity ScoMo can only fake. politics
2019-05-27 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Abbott waits for next ride on gravy train. politics
2019-05-21 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The bodgie. politics
2019-05-20 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Scott Morrison, the opportunist. politics
2019-05-14 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Finally, the beginning of the end. politics
2019-05-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Those who work for Murdoch know exactly what is expected of … media, politics
2019-05-07 MUNGO MacCALLUM. ScoMo’s campaign is going back to the future -- quite a long … politics
2019-05-06 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no … politics
2019-04-30 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The end of the beginning. politics
2019-04-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. What has inevitably been rechristened Watergate is hardly a … politics
2019-04-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The essence of marketing is constant repetition. politics
2019-04-16 MUNGO MacCALLUM. ScoMo is happy to keep the campaign as mean and ugly as … politics
2019-04-15 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Our Leader remains, as so often, in Luddite denial. politics
2019-04-09 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Sick of Morrison's shilly-shallying politics
2019-04-08 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison reverses gratuitous cruelty. politics
2019-04-02 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Drunken braggarts get stung. politics
2019-04-01 MUNGO MacCALLUM. A last minute swing, delivering an improbable victory. politics
2019-03-26 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  Morrison has something to clap about. politics
2019-03-25 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  The Right get back to dog-whistling. politics
2019-03-19 MUNGO MACCALLUM.  The mob will always work you out. politics
2019-03-18 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Students' strike for climate action - and good on them for it. climate, politics
2019-03-12 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison a 'fair dinkum' hole in the air. politics
2019-03-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Farmers, miners and failed leadership. politics
2019-03-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Reboots,fig leafs and climate wars politics
2019-03-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Christopher Pyne,The mincing poodle! politics
2019-02-26 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Wallowing in the chum bucket politics
2019-02-25 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Julie Bishop politics
2019-02-19 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The marketeer in the Lodge. politics
2019-02-18 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Closing the gap. indigenous-affairs
2019-02-12 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Who could have predicted that Kenneth Hayne would turn out to … economy, politics
2019-02-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Peter Dutton says doctors can't e trusted. immigration, politics
2019-02-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. From catastrophic to merely awful. politics
2019-02-04 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The Basin plan has become a Basin scam politics
2019-01-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Warren Muldine is hardly a lifelong true believer. politics
2019-01-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Around the twist or navigating around Australia. politics
2019-01-22 MUNGO MacCALLUM. ScoMo needs damaging distractions - to distract from even more … politics
2019-01-15 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The pugnacious potato has done it again. politics
2019-01-08 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Scott Morrison says the bible is not a policy handbook. politics
2019-01-01 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Kill Bill remains the default option for Scott Morrison. politics
2018-12-24 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Morrison will not go quietly. politics
2018-12-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Nightmare draws to a close. politics
2018-12-17 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison prepares for the next world. politics
2018-12-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The great marketeer seems determined to double down on the … politics
2018-12-10 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Protecting buffoons. politics
2018-12-04 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Something important happened on treaty. indigenous-affairs, politics
2018-12-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Vacuous marketeer needs an education politics
2018-11-27 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison suffers mental congestion. politics
2018-11-26 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Government doesn't get GetUp! politics
2018-11-20 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Another week, another stuff-up. Israel and Indonesia. politics
2018-11-19 MUNGO MacCALLUM. China, The US and the Manus Island naval base. defence, politics
2018-11-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Poor Malcolm. politics
2018-11-12 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison drives bus over sincerity. politics
2018-11-06 Morrison fakes authenticity politics
2018-11-05 Morrison's foreign adventures politics
2018-10-30 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison shows he is no Einstein politics
2018-10-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Welcome to the hung parliament. politics
2018-10-23 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Welcome to chaos. politics
2018-10-22 MUNGO MACCALLUM. A fairy story. politics
2018-10-16 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison channels Joh Bjelke-Petersen politics
2018-10-15 MUNGO MACCALLUM. ScoMo , public relations, marketing and billboards politics
2018-10-09 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison actually does something. politics
2018-10-08 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Government sees no mental disease on Nauru. politics
2018-10-02 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull's cronies. politics
2018-10-01 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison does not get it. indigenous-affairs, politics
2018-09-25 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison is thinking about retirement villages. politics
2018-09-24 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison and the Muppet Show politics
2018-09-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM. ScoMo, ProMo, Status QuoMo politics
2018-09-17 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull lets fly. politics
2018-09-11 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Appealing to Menzies and religion - worth a try politics
2018-09-10 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Dutton’s double standards. politics
2018-09-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. A ministry top-heavy with lightweights. politics
2018-09-03 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Tony Abbott from back bench rebel to back bench envoy. politics
2018-09-02 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Tony Abbott - from a back bench rebel to a back bench envoy. politics
2018-08-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Morrison is, and has always been, a creature of the right, … politics
2018-08-27 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Abbott will find another patsy in his endless search for … politics
2018-08-14 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull running out of energy. politics
2018-08-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Peter Dutton wants to rule the nation. politics
2018-07-31 MUNGO MacCALLUM. A prime minister progressively shriller and less coherent. politics
2018-07-30 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Hywood was the very model of a modern chief executive. politics
2018-07-24 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Interminable campaign comes to climax politics
2018-07-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Trump, the Queen and Putin. politics
2018-07-17 MUNGO MACCALUM. ACCC Report ignites squabbling. climate, politics
2018-07-16 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Three Stooges ride again. politics
2018-07-10 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Tax - something will turn up. politics
2018-07-09 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Libertarians. politics
2018-07-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Shorten delivers a shock. politics
2018-07-02 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Abuse of and in parliament. politics
2018-06-26 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull goes aspirational politics
2018-06-25 MUNGO MacCALLUM. “They don’t hate us for what we do, but for who we are.” politics
2018-06-19 MUNGO MACALLUM. An apology to the victims of sexual abuse politics
2018-06-18 MUNGO MacCALLUM. America's frightened allies. defence
2018-06-12 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Wishful thinking. indigenous-affairs, politics
2018-06-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The end of Western Civilisation! politics
2018-06-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. One Nation and the fabled Enterprise Tax Plan politics
2018-06-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Barnaby Joyce slapstick soap opera. politics
2018-05-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. After all the promises, dithering, the backflips and the … economy, politics
2018-05-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM. For Hastie to drop the bomb without warning his leader was … politics
2018-05-22 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Liberals have a bloke problem. politics
2018-05-21 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Turning a blind eye to the sheep trade. politics
2018-05-15 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Progress taxation or a flat tax economy, politics
2018-05-14 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Nicknames politics
2018-05-08 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Government baking pie in the sky. politics
2018-05-07 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull missed his chance to be his own man. politics
2018-05-01 MUNGO MacCALLUM. politics
2018-04-30 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Government by the bankers, for the bankers, and, in Turnbull's … economy, politics
2018-04-24 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Morrison spins some fairy tales politics
2018-04-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Girt by Sea - Australia, the refugees and the politics of … immigration, politics
2018-04-17 MUNGO MaCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull still doesn’t get it. politics
2018-04-16 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Integrating the events for the able-bodied and the disabled … politics
2018-04-10 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull manages the fallout. politics
2018-04-09 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Manus - a tourist destination or a crime against humanity? politics
2018-04-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull howls at the moon economy, politics
2018-04-02 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Sledging on and off the field. politics
2018-03-27 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The Government hands around the silver. economy
2018-03-26 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The banks are bastards. politics
2018-03-20 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Batman conquered politics
2018-03-19 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Peter Dutton and his South African friends. politics
2018-03-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Tariffs and Mateship. politics
2018-03-12 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and those thirty Newspolls. politics
2018-03-06 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Adani. climate, politics
2018-03-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Federal Hotels win in Tasmania politics
2018-02-27 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and Barnaby Joyce politics
2018-02-26 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Holy by-election, Batman, this could be serious! politics
2018-02-13 Supply and demand economy, politics
2018-02-12 Warriors of the right stumble into minefield politics
2018-02-06 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Merchants of death defence, economy
2018-01-30 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Trans-Pacific Partnership. politics
2018-01-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Do we really need an honours system? politics
2018-01-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Captain Goodvibes Turnbull and political correctness. politics
2018-01-15 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Turnbull's scare campaign on negative gearing politics
2018-01-09 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Downer finally puts fishnet stockings behind him. politics
2018-01-02 Malcolm Turnbull's new slogan has an ominous ring. politics
2017-12-27 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull ship still laden with barnacles politics
2017-12-19 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull overhauls his hyperbole politics
2017-12-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Alexander wins return to obscurity politics
2017-12-12 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull ran dead on SSM politics
2017-12-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and Sam Dastyari. politics
2017-12-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and John Barilaro. politics
2017-11-28 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Tax cuts, religious freedom and Turnbull's other distractions politics
2017-11-27 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Bishop's credibility leaking away. politics
2017-11-21 MUNGO MacCALLUM. What silent majority? politics
2017-11-20 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull spooked into wrong strategy politics
2017-11-14 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Turnbull acts tough while crisis brews. politics
2017-11-13 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Bizarre 'No' campaign still trying to grab the controls politics
2017-11-07 MUNGO MACCALLUM. What is Malcolm smoking? politics
2017-11-06 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Real Malcolm stands up and tells First Australians to piss off politics
2017-10-24 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Game changer. climate, economy, politics
2017-10-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and Daniel Andrews. politics
2017-10-16 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Bravura performance from Tony Abbott as stand-up comic. politics
2017-10-10 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Welcome to Malcolm's brave new world. politics
2017-10-09 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Rejoicing in the good old days. politics
2017-10-03 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Malcolm is sure of one thing: it's all Labor's fault. politics
2017-10-02 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Politics is an integral part of sport politics
2017-09-26 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Easier for Turnbull to deal with ‘Blackout’ Bill than … politics
2017-09-25 MUNGO MacCALLUM. At last our national daily has finally come clean. politics
2017-09-19 MUNGO MACCALLUM. With Turnbull, hope is all we've got. politics
2017-09-18 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Murphy was a political giant, a man of voracious appetites on … politics
2017-09-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. An energy emergency after ten years! climate, politics
2017-09-12 MUNGO MacCALLUM. 'Come on chaps,I am right behind you' politics
2017-09-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Turnbull has had a quiet week: is that because no one is … politics
2017-09-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Business people and trade unionists. politics
2017-08-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Captain Cook. indigenous-affairs, politics
2017-08-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Our Prime Minister needs to become more prime ministerial. politics
2017-08-22 MUNGO MACCALLUM. The good news. politics
2017-08-15 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Strong leaders carry out their promises - Malcolm Turnbull. politics
2017-08-09 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and Eric Abetz in furious agreement on same … politics
2017-08-08 MUNGO MacCALLUM. A $30 million gift to the great rent seeker, News Corp. media, politics
2017-08-02 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Time to take Bill Shorten seriously. politics
2017-08-01 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Another fine mess the constitution has got us into. politics
2017-07-25 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Greek Wisdom. politics
2017-07-24 MUNGO MacCALLUM. A peace deal between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott! politics
2017-07-18 MUNGO MACCALLUM. Malcolm gazes at broad church politics
2017-07-17 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Caught in the endless travails of his ungovernable party room, … politics
2017-07-12 MUNGO MACCALLUM. No holiday for Tony Abbott politics
2017-07-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. 'The gentleman you describe.' politics
2017-07-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Tony Abbott shoots first and asks questions later. politics
2017-07-03 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Greens remain political amateurs. politics
2017-06-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM. With his Gonski II win, Malcolm Turnbull has something to … politics
2017-06-27 MUNGO MacCALLUM. We are in dreadful peril. politics
2017-06-20 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Tony Abbott is winning and Peter Dutton is paying hush-money. politics
2017-06-19 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Australian again supports Trump against Turnbull. media, politics
2017-06-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Finkel Report and Malcolm Turnbull - compromising at the … climate, economy, politics
2017-06-12 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Theresa May and Malcolm Turnbull - same problems and same … politics
2017-06-06 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Shrill parliamentary voices. politics
2017-06-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Will the forgotten people be heard at last? indigenous-affairs, politics
2017-06-02 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Uluru Statement. indigenous-affairs
2017-05-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Menzies' 'forgotten people' and 'forgotten issues'. politics
2017-05-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM  So much for the miracle budget politics
2017-05-16 MUNGO MacCALLUM.  And with one bound, our hero was free media, politics
2017-04-25 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Turnbull's lunge to the populist right. politics
2017-04-24 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Dog whistling about Australian values. politics
2017-04-18 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull on superannuation and housing. politics
2017-04-17 MUNGO McCALLUM. Turnbull's Passage to India. climate, politics
2017-04-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Another distraction, but what a distraction. climate, economy, politics
2017-04-10 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Who is to blame for the last Liberal Party election failure - … politics
2017-04-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Even in Malcolm Turnbull's own terms, it is a fizzer. economy, media, politics
2017-04-03 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Free speech, Newscorp and Mark Latham. media, politics
2017-03-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Can Turnbull learn from Trump? politics
2017-03-21 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Gas bags and hydro hype. economy, politics
2017-03-20 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Opponents of political correctness have had a ball. media, politics
2017-03-14 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Will Malcolm Turnbull seize the opportunity? media, politics
2017-03-07 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Scratching to find an alternative to Malcolm Turnbull. politics
2017-02-27 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Abbott geyser. politics
2017-02-21 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Political morality and preference deals. politics
2017-02-20 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull's attacks. politics
2017-02-14 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Cory Bernardi and the Liberal Party. politics
2017-02-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull on climate change and coal. climate, economy, politics
2017-02-07 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Trump and Turnbull. climate, immigration, politics
2017-01-31 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump on 'alternate facts'. politics
2017-01-24 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Baird and Turnbull. politics
2017-01-17 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and Sussan Ley. politics
2017-01-10 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Turnbull on Indonesia and Israel. defence, politics
2017-01-03 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull on his knees. politics
2016-12-27 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull's future. media, politics
2016-12-20 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull's end of year report card. politics
2016-12-19 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Federal Government failure and State Government responses. politics
2016-12-13 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull blaming everyone but himself. climate, economy, politics
2016-12-12 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Saving democracy. politics
2016-12-06 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull will do anything to secure an outcome. economy, politics
2016-12-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. George Brandis is a dead man walking. economy, politics
2016-11-29 MUNGO MacCALLUM. the National Party is 'feeling its oats'. politics
2016-11-22 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Trump, Turnbull and ANZUS. defence, politics
2016-11-15 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Donald Trump - a change agenda? politics
2016-11-14 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Shorten and Trump. politics
2016-11-08 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Paranoia about boat people and manufactured demagogic outrage. immigration, media, politics
2016-11-07 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Family First or Day First? media, politics
2016-11-01 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Trickle down. economy, politics
2016-10-31 MUNGO MacCALLUM. What worthwhile lawyer would want to work with George Brandis. politics
2016-10-25 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Concealing crimes in Manus and Nauru. immigration, media, politics
2016-10-24 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Turnbull-Abbott shoot out. politics
2016-10-17 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Brandis vs Gleeson. politics
2016-10-17 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull's problem in the parliament. politics
2016-10-11 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Royal Commissions for Labor prime ministers and trade union … economy, politics
2016-10-10 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Honorary doctorate for John Howard. media, politics
2016-10-04 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull's low road. politics
2016-10-03 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Cheering for East Timor. politics
2016-09-26 MUNGO MacCALLUM. World's best practice - the Gulags on Manus and Nauru. immigration, politics
2016-09-20 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Happy birthday Malcolm Turnbull. politics
2016-09-06 MUNGO MacCALLUM. ALP Ambush. media, politics
2016-09-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Undermining Malcolm Turnbull. politics
2016-08-30 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Scott Morrison - channelling Paul Keating or Joe Hockey. politics
2016-08-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Long Tan - minding our manners. politics
2016-08-23 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Born to rule and oppose. politics
2016-08-19 MUNGO MacCALLUM. The Olympic Games. A chance to celebrate and honour human … politics
2016-08-15 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull, accident-prone and careless. politics
2016-08-10 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Campaign against the Australian Census. politics
2016-08-09 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and indigenous affairs. indigenous-affairs, politics
2016-08-01 MUNGO MacCALLUM. So much for Team Australia! politics
2016-07-05 MUNGO MacCALLUM. This is not the way it was meant to be. politics
2016-06-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Trust and Distrust. politics
2016-06-22 MUNGO MacCALLUM. A treaty with indigenous Australians. indigenous-affairs, politics
2016-06-06 MUNGO MacCALLUM. A jaded slogan: economic plan for jobs and growth. economy, politics
2016-06-03 MUNGO McCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull and NBN leaks. defence, politics
2016-05-28 MUNGO MacCALLUM: Rituals of irrelevance and distraction. economy, politics
2016-05-27 MUNGO MacCALLUM: Tax - in the eye of the beholder. economy, media, politics
2016-05-11 Mungo MacCallum. Turnbull/Morrison mantra: jobs and growth. politics
2016-04-26 Mungo MacCallum. So that was the week that wasn’t. politics