Mungana affair

The Mungana Affair involved the selling, in 1922, of some mining properties in the Chillagoe-Mungana districts of northern Queensland, Australia to the Queensland government,^[1] at a grossly inflated price.

In 1929 the Queensland Government appointed a Royal Commission to investigate the sale. The Commission found that two prominent state politicians, Ted Theodore, Premier of Queensland from 1919 to 1925, and William McCormack, Premier of Queensland from 1925 to 1929, each secretly held 25% ownership of the properties sold.

References

↑ "State Mines: The Mungana Acquisistion". Brisbane Courier. 1922-02-15. Retrieved 2014-02-21.

Further reading

K. H. Kennedy. The Mungana Affair: State Mining and Political Corruption in the 1920s, University of Queensland Press, 1978
Trevor Sykes. Two Centuries of Panic, Allen and Unwin, 1988. (Chapter 11: "Theodore's scandal")

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