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Golf fish
Myobatrachus gouldii, the Turtle Frog, is a species of Anura family Myobatrachidae. It is the only species of the genus Myobatrachus and is found in Western Australia.

Description
M. gouldii is 45 mm long and has small legs, eyes and head in proportion to its rotund body. The protruding head and arms and back have a similar form to turtle, giving the common name Turtle Frog. The back can appear greyish or brown, with a distinct pink hue, and is smooth and shiny; the underside is rough and of a pale colour flecked with brown. The species can burrow and, unusually for a frog, does this by digging forward.

Ecology
The species has similarities to Arenophryne rotunda in diet and behaviour, but is distinguishable by its size. Breeding takes place when pairs form a burrow nest and the female leaves 15-20 eggs, 5-7 mm long. These eggs are the largest of an Australian frog and the progeny will emerge fully formed, undergoing development within the egg. The frog can be found away from water courses under logs on sandy soils. It will emerge from the burrow at times of rain.

Threatened Status
Reduction in habitat, extent not investigated.
 * Salinity

Bischof, Francis Erich (Frank) (1904 - 1979)
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<!-- In August 1958 he 'shook up' the force by transfers and new appointments. A Crime Prevention Bureau and a Public Relations Bureau were established, as well as a pipe-band. Bischof counselled his staff: 'If you're news on the front page you don't have much to worry about. It's when they start putting your wrongdoings on the back page that we'll all start to panic'.

Bischof appeared frequently at public functions throughout the countryside, encouraging various initiatives whereby the community could support and co-operate with police activities. He became well known for his interest in the welfare of children, particularly through the expansion of youth clubs. Foundation chairman of the Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association, in 1959 he was named Queensland's first 'Father of the Year', though he was childless. He often conducted counselling sessions for young lawbreakers on Saturday mornings in his office and in 1963 arranged for the formation of the Juvenile Aid Bureau under a senior constable (Sir) Terence Lewis who was to become commissioner. That year Bischof was appointed M.V.O.; in 1965 he was awarded the police medal.

For all that, a constant barrage of political criticism accompanied Bischof's efforts. Allegations and suggestions of corruption, abuse of power or negligence on the part of individual police officers were insistently raised in parliament by C. J. Bennett, E. J. Walsh and Tom Aikens. Disquiet also arose over police zeal in controlling street demonstrations. In October 1963 Bennett's allegations that Bischof and other police frequented, encouraged and condoned a call-girl service in a Brisbane hotel led to a royal commission (1963-64) into the police force and the National Hotel. In the face of unreliable and restricted evidence, Justice (Sir) Harry Gibbs of the Supreme Court of Queensland did not find that a call-girl service operated or had police sanction. He did find irregularities, however, in the enforcement of the licensing laws in that 'the hotel was let off due to friendship between it and the force'. The limited terms of reference did not require the commission to consider the policing of prostitution, or to examine corruption in relation to members of the licensing branch and the consorting squad. Gibbs's inquiry might have been frustrated by a cover-up: in 1971 one of the witnesses Shirley Brifman admitted to perjury in her evidence, but her death cut short any attempt at further investigation.

During Bischof's commissionership a network of corruption—particularly identified with the licensing branch and the consorting squad—was becoming entrenched. It led to the protection of vice figures, among them starting-price bookmakers who continued to flourish despite restrictive legislation, and prostitutes who began operating from hotels after the Nicklin government had closed the brothels. The existence and extent of the network became public only when G. E. Fitzgerald's commission of inquiry into possible illegal activities and associated police misconduct (1987-1989) began gathering evidence. This commission revealed that 'certain police were said to enjoy Bischof's favour, and to be his ''bag-men"', and that they collected protection payoffs. As Fitzgerald observed, 'in some respects police corruption had acquired a quaint quasi-legitimacy by the Bischof era'.

With only 240 days until his retirement, Bischof took leave somewhat suddenly on 13 February 1969. Suffering from hypertension, he spent three periods in hospital before being boarded out of the force on medical grounds. The reasons for his retirement became apparent when Sir Thomas Hiley (State treasurer 1957-65) published his account of 'The case of the corrupt Commissioner' in the Brisbane Courier Mail on 18 September 1982 and exposed Bischof's weakness as an 'inveterate punter'. Some country bookmakers had complained to Hiley of a police protection racket, with proceeds flowing through to Brisbane; aided by betting sheets, Hiley established the extent of Bischof's habit; he then confronted Bischof who capitulated. It was later stated that during his last three years in office Bischof had received treatment for psychotic depression. In December 1974 he was charged with stealing, but the Crown filed a no-true bill. Bischof's interests included bowling, and he was sometime patron of the Queensland Amateur Water Polo Association. Survived by his wife, he died on 28 August 1979 in South Brisbane and was cremated. Select Bibliography

P. James, In Place of Justice (Deception Bay, Qld, 1974); G. E. Fitzgerald, Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (Brisb, 1989); Courier Mail (Brisbane), 5 June 1967, 18 Sept 1982; Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 9 Feb 1969; Sunday Sun (Brisbane), 24 Oct 1976, 2 Sept 1979; Police Department (Queensland) records (Brisbane), and personnel file AF 8912 (Queensland State Archives). More on the resources

Author: W. Ross Johnston

Print Publication Details: W. Ross Johnston, 'Bischof, Francis Erich (Frank) (1904 - 1979)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 186-187. -->

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Platylobium
Genera.

Durack family
The Durack family are the Australian descendents of Jeremiah Durack [and his brothers?], a European pioneer who established himself in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The later works or prominence of notable descendants has brought a recognition of the family, most notably Dame Mary Durack's seminal work of the early australian pastoralists, Kings in Grass Castles. Their history is also intertwined with the people whose country they were establish themselves from.

Pumpkin (1850? - 1908) Boontamurra tribe, Cooper Creek district, west Queensland, was about 18 in 1868 when Patrick Durack established Thylungra station on Cooper Creek.
 * Tree

Maternal Frances Neal ?
 * Patrick Durack(1834 - 1898)=Mary Costello
 * Michael Patrick Durack(1865 - 1950)
 * Durack, Kimberley Michael (Kim) (1917 - 1968)
 * Mary Durack (Painter)?


 * Jeremiah Bryce Durack
 * Neil Joseph DURACK (1892 - 1920)


 * Greta Aileen DURACK


 * Elizabeth Durack
 * Dame Mary Durack=Horace Clive Miller (1893 - 1980)
 * Robin Miller

See also Relationship not established.
 * Early ties with Alexander Forrest
 * Durack, Queensland?
 * Ernest Durack (1882 - 1967) politician, accountant and storekeeper, was born on 10 August 1882 at Mutton Falls, New South Wales, son of Thomas Durack, storekeeper, and his wife Mary, née Webb; both parents were born in the colony.

Resources
 * Primary and secondary sources are mainly Mary Durack. Bolton has drawn on source material.
 * DURACK, SARAH (FANNY) (1889-1956), swimmer, was born on 27 October 1889 at Elizabeth Street, Sydney, third daughter and sixth child of Irish parents Thomas Durack, publican, a relation of Patrick Durack, and his wife Mary, née Mason.
 * Durack, Patrick ADB
 * Mason family's tree (no ref?)
 * ADB search on Durack
 * preface to Mary durack's 1982 epilogue to Kings in the Bulletin. 25 MB link to essay excerpt.