Tag Thus spake Mungo
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Thus Spake Mungo: bonking
The most remarkable thing about the revelation of Gladys Berejiklian’s love life was that it was remarkable at all.
5 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 38 -
Thus Spake Mungo: shovel ready
There’s one sure thing about Josh Frydenberg’s budget – it is shovel ready.
12 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 21 -
Thus Spake Mungo: jobs, jobs and more jobs
In 1983, with an economic downturn – not even a proper recession – in play, the new Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, convened his economic summit to implement his election agenda of recovery, reconciliation and reconstruction.
18 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 27 -
Thus Spake Mungo: power is politics
At least the latest energy plan – the coalition’s 22nd, and counting – is not all about gas.
26 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 42 -
Thus Spake Mungo: pre-budget
For Australia’s hardline, copper-bottomed, hide-bound conservatives, federation was always a mistake.
September 14, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 21 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the depression
Last week’s numbers brought us the bad news we were expecting: Australia has fallen into the worst recession in nearly a century.
September 7, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 20 -
Thus Spake Mungo – Murphy and the octogenarian
I will turn 80 next year, which means that the issue of aged care is rapidly assuming more than academic significance.
August 17, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 19 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Another month, another setback
Another month, another setback – several, unfortunately – with preparations for the budget being finalised in an atmosphere of quiet desperation.
August 3, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 39 -
Thus Spake Mungo: sweet COVID relief
We would never dream of accusing Scott Morrison of being relieved by the onset of the second wave of COVID-19, but nonetheless it has postponed a nagging problem for him.
July 27, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 28 -
Thus Spake Mungo: another week, another dollar or billion
The consensus is in: the economy rules, okay? Finally, what remains of the national cabinet is essentially united.
July 20, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 17 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the second wave
If this isn’t the dreaded second wave of COVID-19, it will do until the real thing comes along.
July 13, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 20 -
Thus Spake Mungo: there’s something about Guy
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…
July 6, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 42 -
Thus Spake Mungo: ahh the Spike
Australia awoke last week to the strains of Spike Milligan’s poignant refrain, ‘I’m walking backwards to Christmas.’ It may not be all the way to Christmas, but it could be even further – well into next year, and perhaps beyond that.
June 29, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 13 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Bloody Victorians
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
June 22, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 16 -
Thus Spake Mungo: The revolt
Shock, horror. Someone has tested positive to COVID-19 after the Black Lives Matter protest in Melbourne and Peter Dutton is terrified – his worst fears have been realised, he hyperventilated.
June 15, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 21 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Reconciliation week goes off with a bang
So Reconciliation Week has come and gone – and also gone is 46,000 years worth of priceless history pulverised by Rio Tinto in the Juukan Gorge.
June 9, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 16 -
Thus Spake Mungo: olive branches and doves
Scott Morrison’s press club speech last week was almost drowned out by the rustling of olive branches and the cooing of doves.
June 1, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 9 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the COVIDSafe economy
The latest catchphrase from our government spin doctors is ‘a COVIDSafe economy’ – optimistic and reassuring. And, unfortunately, a cruel hoax; a contradiction in terms. The economy is not safe from this coronavirus, and almost certainly never will be. Even... Read More →
May 11, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 21 -
Thus Spake Mungo: (app)rehensive
I must admit to a moment of apprehension before downloading the COVID-19 app; anything that involves Amazon or Stuart Robert has to be either incompetent or dodgy or both.
May 4, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 12 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the cost of a job
It has only taken a week for the simple beauty of JobKeepers to become a little tarnished.
April 20, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 21 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the snapback
Having shrugged off the minor and temporary distraction of parliament, Scott Morrison can resume doing what he is best at – marketing himself and his often-dubious achievements.
April 13, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 24 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Isolation days
Last week I could have my hair styled, but I couldn’t get a kidney transplant. I could take my kids to school, but not to church. I could invite nine mates to a funeral, but only four to a wedding
March 30, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 14 -
Thus Spake Mungo: COVID-19 getting personal
Suddenly it’s personal. I have been placed in home isolation.
March 23, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 28 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the coalition’s relief
To the manifest relief of the coalition and its supporters, Scott Morrison’s approach to the coronavirus crisis has been cautiously endorsed by the voters.
March 16, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 15 -
Thus Spake Mungo: dodging the pellet
Once again the Morrison government has dodged a bullet – rather a pellet, actually, with the real fusillade still to come.
March 9, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 10
