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COME ON, PEOPLE!!
Get those fingers tapping...
Mr Google has lots of information on Mungo.
Look at his middle name and check his ancestry.
It should stand out like the proverbial canine genitalia! 😳
(Make sure you’re looking at the correct Mungo... the political journalist. 😜)
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He, Mungo Wentworth McCallum, is the son of Mungo Ballardie MacCallum (1913–99), a journalist and pioneer of television in Australia, and Diana Wentworth, a great-granddaughter of the Australian explorer and politician William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872)

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By George, he’s got it!
Mungo MacCallum is a direct descendant of William Charles Wentworth, he of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth who finally found a way across the Blue Mountains and opened up western NSW to farming.
W. C. Wentworth went on to become a noted Parliamentarian.
By coincidence Mungo has a cousin, William Charles Wentworth, who is a NSW MP.
Ncle George, you turn to pose a question.
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:? George?? GEORGE!!!
Are you there, George? :shock:
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OK, who cut the ribbon at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge?

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The renegade that rode thru on a horse I believe?

Googled it De Groot & then it was retired for Premier Lang.
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Shirley’s turn....
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Newcastle George wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:39 pm OK, who cut the ribbon at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge?

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My Mum and Dad were there on the day .
Bernie .
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BernieQ wrote: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:19 am
Newcastle George wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:39 pm OK, who cut the ribbon at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge?

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My Mum and Dad were there on the day .
Bernie .
So were mine Bernie.

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Shirley wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:23 pm The renegade that rode thru on a horse I believe?

Googled it De Groot & then it was retired for Premier Lang.
Where did the ribbon retire to?

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