A political writer, journalist and satirist, Mungo MacCallum published a number of works including
Mungo's Canberra (1977),
Mungo on the Zoo Plane (1979),
How To Be a Megalomaniac, or, Advice To a Young Politician (2002) and
Run, Johnny, Run (2004).
MacCallum was a political journalist for many years, writing for Nation Review, the National Times, the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2001, he published the autobiographical Mungo: The Man Who Laughs; charting the 'events and people who shaped our history'; this work has been described as a 'memoir' which focuses on Australian political life.
MacCallum's father was the journalist and writer, Mungo (Ballardie) MacCallum .
