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

Mungo's articles (401 total)

Mungo MacCallum: The collection
Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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/

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

That's all she wrote

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

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

The national anthem is back on the playlist

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

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.”

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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. 

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.”

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

Isn't less government what the conservatives really want?

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

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

McMahon, Abbott and Morrison.

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

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.”

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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.

Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd)

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)

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