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After leaving the
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Murphy was in 1861 a member of the commission on the Burke and Wills expedition, and in 1863 chairman of the league directed against further transportation. He was chairman of the
National Bank of Australasia and director of other companies. Murphy was one of the three Australian commissioners tasked
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to a position on the staff of colonial surgeons. On appointment he proceeded to take charge of a portion of the southern district in the county of Argyle, but soon afterwards being led into agricultural pursuits, he resigned his official position, and finally discontinued practice as a medical man.
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Victoria from New South Wales. He was for some time Chairman of Committees, and in 1852 he sold his pastoral property and went to reside permanently in Melbourne. In 1853 he was re-elected for the Murray, and resigned the
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President of the Central Road Board, which latter position he relinquished in November 1856. He was acting Speaker in the council during the absence, on account of illness, of Dr. (later Sir)
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