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<p>[Page 20]</p><p>a friend of the English King and a honorary citizen of the major English cities. His popularity in Australia seems to be fading but he is all the more successful in England and will be hoping soon to return there for good, becoming a member of the House of Commons, a minister of England and maybe even a Lord. The man seems to have more than enough ambitions and financially he would have milked his office for all its worth, so why not?</p><p>Every might man in public office here has a few dark spots in his curriculum vitae. Everybody knows it and it makes no difference. The Lord Mayor of Sydney, a certain Mr Meagher (pronounced Maher), once narrowly escaped imprisonment over a major wheat scandal by getting off with a fine. There are many cases like this! In any dubious case the government appoints a Royal Commission to investigate which almost never finds anything. Very often these Royal Commissions are appointed solely to give certain parliamentarians an extra source of income, because their pay of £600 doesn’t leave much to save. If for example a Labor MP</p>