[1] Durack represented farmers, tradesmen and unionists, workers, lumpers, bar staff, belleagured husbands and wives, politicians, store owners and recent migrants.
[3] Durack was at school at Christian Brothers College on St George's Terrace in Perth at the time of the trial of Banjo for the murder of his father Galway Jerry; where JP Durack ran along the Swan River bank from School to the Supreme court and called out to Banjo: "Why did you shoot the Boss?".
They lived at the historic Federation Queen Anne house "Strathmore" at 18 Chester Street Subiaco, built in 1905 for Walter David Cookes, founder of the Ezywalkin Boot and Shoe Company of Fremantle.
He went hunting on Wednesdays through Kings Park and purchased a stallion called "Midnight", which he hid in the nearby outbuildings of the historic home "Fairview".
[6] He was the father of Peter Drew Durack, a Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia in 1948, a lawyer and attorney-general in the Malcolm Fraser Federal government from 1977.