The Mungana affair involved the sale to the Government of Queensland , Australia , in 1922, of some mining properties in the Chillagoe - Mungana districts of northern Queensland , 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.
6-703: Following the 1929 Queensland state election , the new conservative Queensland Government appointed a Royal Commission to investigate the sale of properties owned by the Mungana Mining Co. On 4 July 1930, the Commission reported. It found that, at the time of the sale in 1922, Theodore and McCormack each secretly held 25% ownership of the properties. It declared that Theodore and McCormack were guilty of "fraud and dishonesty", and abuse of ministerial position. That forced Theodore's immediate resignation from his role as Federal Treasurer . McCormack, who had quit
12-574: A railway lock-out in 1927 which pitted the Labor Party against the union movement, restrictive financial policies and attempts to sell off state-owned enterprises, as well as suggestions of corruption which later came to be known as the Mungana affair . The election resulted in the defeat of the McCormack government in a landslide , and the first non-Labor ministry since 1915. The election saw
18-665: The Labor leadership following his government's 1929 electoral defeat, resigned from Queensland Parliament in February 1930, the month the Royal Commission was set up. 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
24-491: The defeat of the Labor government by the CPNP. Queensland state election, 11 May 1929 Legislative Assembly << 1926 – 1932 >> This table lists changes in party representation at the 1929 election. Note: from 1892 until 1942, Queensland used contingency voting , which was similar to the modern optional preferential voting system. In electorates with 3 or more candidates, preferences were not distributed if
30-532: The first woman to both stand and be elected into the Queensland Parliament. The Labor government was seeking its sixth continuous term in office since the 1915 election ; it would be Premier William McCormack 's second election. His main opponent was the Country and Progressive National Party (CPNP), led by Arthur Edward Moore . The term had not gone well for McCormack's government, including
36-483: Was handed down on 24 August. This article related to Australian law is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1929 Queensland state election William McCormack Labor Arthur Edward Moore CPNP Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 May 1929 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly . In this election, Irene Longman became
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