Alfred National Park Alfred National Park The Alfred National Park is a national park located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. The national park is situated approximately east of Melbourne and was declared in 1925. The park is dissected by the Princes Highway, between and . The park reserves examples of warm temperate rainforest, particularly the jungle of Mount Drummer. Compared to the tropical rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales, this is a floristically depauperate forest, representing as it does the southern limit of this flora. This region is biogeographically interesting as the meeting point between the
Mungo Ballardie MacCallum Mungo Ballardie MacCallum John Mungo Ballardie MacCallum (commonly known as Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, 11 December 1913 – 12 July 1999) was an Australian journalist, broadcaster and poet. MacCallum was born in Point Piper, Sydney on 11 December 1913. His father was Mungo Lorenz MacCallum, a Rhodes Scholar and the son of Mungo William MacCallum, Chancellor of the University of Sydney. He attended the Sydney Grammar School and studied Arts at the University of Sydney. MacCallum started working for the ABC in 1952, and, after a stint at the BBC, helped produce the first night of television in Australia in 1956.