It is no hoax – the bearded skull of political journalist and commentator Mungo MacCallum will speak at an interesting evening in Darwin on Tuesday , June 29. His topic will be " Current Politics and Deplorable Media Coverage " at a function organized by the NT Library .
This Little Darwin fossil had the opportunity to dust down the counter at the grand Non Members’ Bar in old parliament house in Canberra with Mungo and swap anecdotes , including one about a certain ambitious journo who had served time in the Territory.
The laws of defamation prevent any further details of the exchange , punctuated by mad laughing, which made others stare questioningly at us , and some unseemly , not politically correct language passed my lips. I can only let slip that a prominent right wing identity , a garrulous pain in the archaeological pit, was involved in one tale. An inquisitive person later asked me what Mungo and I had been raucously laughing about in the bar. Like George Washington, unable to tell a fib, I told him the subjects involved national security and thus were covered by a D-notice, so my lips were sealed .
It was a time of much younger looking political reporters such as Michelle Grattan, Paul Kelly and Mike Steketee . Like the Phantom of the Opera , Gareth Evans was often seen dashing about the corridors from photo copier to copier, with a tome about the size of Webster’s Dictionary , bemoaning the fact that the machines were out of paper.
Mungo’s enlightened prose and commentaries entertain and inform the nation and his journo colleagues. What a shame the Darwin University radio station does not run his political commentary instead of The Parrot, the cash for mush chap. Mungo’s free talk kicks off at 5.15pm, presumably in the parliamentary library ( the leaflet does not say ) , and bookings are preferred by ringing 1800 019 155 or libraryevents@nt.gov.au. Roll up for what will undoubtedly be more edifying than the predictable outpourings of the right wing commentariat, which includes in its number one who bears a striking resemblance to one of the many feral Northern Territory pygmy hippopotamuses in Darwin Harbour, causing algal blooms and destroying the great floating islands of African water hyacinth that form a Keep Australia Beautiful award winning walkway from Cullen Bay to Mandorah .
This Little Darwin fossil had the opportunity to dust down the counter at the grand Non Members’ Bar in old parliament house in Canberra with Mungo and swap anecdotes , including one about a certain ambitious journo who had served time in the Territory.
The laws of defamation prevent any further details of the exchange , punctuated by mad laughing, which made others stare questioningly at us , and some unseemly , not politically correct language passed my lips. I can only let slip that a prominent right wing identity , a garrulous pain in the archaeological pit, was involved in one tale. An inquisitive person later asked me what Mungo and I had been raucously laughing about in the bar. Like George Washington, unable to tell a fib, I told him the subjects involved national security and thus were covered by a D-notice, so my lips were sealed .
It was a time of much younger looking political reporters such as Michelle Grattan, Paul Kelly and Mike Steketee . Like the Phantom of the Opera , Gareth Evans was often seen dashing about the corridors from photo copier to copier, with a tome about the size of Webster’s Dictionary , bemoaning the fact that the machines were out of paper.
Mungo’s enlightened prose and commentaries entertain and inform the nation and his journo colleagues. What a shame the Darwin University radio station does not run his political commentary instead of The Parrot, the cash for mush chap. Mungo’s free talk kicks off at 5.15pm, presumably in the parliamentary library ( the leaflet does not say ) , and bookings are preferred by ringing 1800 019 155 or libraryevents@nt.gov.au. Roll up for what will undoubtedly be more edifying than the predictable outpourings of the right wing commentariat, which includes in its number one who bears a striking resemblance to one of the many feral Northern Territory pygmy hippopotamuses in Darwin Harbour, causing algal blooms and destroying the great floating islands of African water hyacinth that form a Keep Australia Beautiful award winning walkway from Cullen Bay to Mandorah .
