Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Kimberley 9 November 1917–5 April 1924
Royal Commissions
- Chairman, Royal Commission on Meat Industry 1928
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Personal Information |
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3 September 1950 |
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West Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Farmer |
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Worked on Thylungra
Joined father on newly established cattle station Argyle, East Kimberley, 1886
Travelled overland with cattle to Darwin and 1893 to Derby with uncle, MJ Durack, 1891
Formed Ivanhoe on northern portion of Argyle run, 1894
Durack Bros amalgamated with Connor and Doherty in pastoral and cattle-shipping business, 1897
Firm shipped 3,612 cattle to Natal, 1902
Entered Philippines trade, 1910–1911
Represented East Kimberley on Committee of Western Australian Pastoralists’ Association for many years
Supported unsuccessful ventures to find minerals in Kimberleys, 1920s
Sold properties to Peel River Estates, 1950 |
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Wyndham Road Board until June 1906 |
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Childhood on Thylungra station, Queensland
Had debt problems in 1930s
Justice of the Peace |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2010, p. 69.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 30 June 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=cc29451a-541d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
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G. C. Bolton, 'Durack, Michael Patrick (1865–1950)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/durack-michael-patrick-6062/text10373, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 17 December 2015.
Bolton, ‘History of the Kimberley Pastoral Industry’, USWA 1954.
Diaries 1886–1950 (WA State Records Office)
Durack
West Australian, 4 September 1950. |