Mungana affair
The Mungana affair involved the sale to the
Mungana districts of northern Queensland,[1] at a grossly inflated price. At that time, Ted Theodore was Premier of Queensland and William McCormack, was member for Cairns and a former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. Both men represented the Australian Labor Party
. McCormack was later premier of Queensland, from 1925 to 1929, and Theodore entered federal politics in 1927.
Following the
The Queensland Government did not charge either man with any criminal offence. However, it signalled its intention to take civil action to retrieve the difference between the selling price of the mines and their estimated worth. After considerable delay, civil proceedings began on 22 July 1931. A "not guilty" verdict was handed down on 24 August.[5]
References
- ^ "State Mines: The Mungana Acquisistion". Brisbane Courier. 15 February 1922. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ "Advertising". The Week. Vol. CIX, no. 2, 846. Queensland, Australia. 11 July 1930. p. 1. Retrieved 5 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- The Brisbane Courier. No. 22, 487. Queensland, Australia. 22 February 1930. p. 15. Retrieved 5 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
Further reading
- Kennedy, Kett Howard (1978). The Mungana Affair: State Mining and Political Corruption in the 1920s (PDF). University of Queensland Press.
- Moore, David (2016). The Curse of Mungana. Boolarong Press.
- Trevor Sykes. Two Centuries of Panic, Allen and Unwin, 1988. (Chapter 11: "Theodore's scandal")
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