Michael Durack was the son of Patrick Durack and Mary Costello, both Irish-Australians.
13 Facts About Michael Durack
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Michael Durack's firm was a major influence on the Kimberley pastoral industry for the next fifty years.
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Michael Durack negotiated a shipment of 3,612 cattle to Natal in 1902, which was long hailed a record overseas consignment of live cattle.
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Michael Durack became discontented with the Mitchell government, and in 1920 joined the Country Party, subsequently retiring from politics in 1924.
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Michael Durack assisted the scientific party which had arrived at Wyndham, Western Australia, for determinations of the north Western Australia border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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Michael Durack died on 3 September 1950 and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.
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Jerry "Galway" Durack was the youngest son of Michael and Mary and the first to be born in Australia, when the family were still in Queensland.
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Michael Durack served with the 10th Light Horse Brigade in Egypt, Palestine and Syria and by World War 2, he had the rank of Major in the Army Legal Corps.
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Michael Durack represented farmers, tradesmen and unionists, workers, lumpers, bar staff, beleaguered husbands and wives, politicians, store owners and recent migrants.
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Michael Durack was involved in divorce, licensing, probate, criminal, litigation and commercial cases.
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Michael Durack was appointed a Kings Counsel in June 1939, at the age of fifty.
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Michael Durack was President of the Law Society of Western Australia from 1943 to 1945.
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JP Michael Durack continued practising law at Dwyer Michael Durack until the 1970s, when he was well into his eighties.