Sir James Alexander McCusker (2 December 1913 – 30 September 1995)[1] was a prominent Australian financial services industry figure and philanthropist during the 20th century.
In 1959, he left the bank to establish and manage several "terminating" building societies, which provided finance to enable people to buy a home.
[citation needed] McCusker was elected President of the WA Association of Permanent Building Societies in 1978; he stepped down in 1979 but remained a councillor.
[citation needed] In the following years, the family company Martindale Pty Ltd, of which James and his son Malcolm were co-directors, engaged in a range of philanthropic projects.
It also had agricultural interests (cereal crops, cattle and sheep) in the Dandaragan, Calingiri and Victoria Plains districts, totally approximately 10,000 hectares.
Martindale was a state winner of the Landcare Awards for its work in restoring and rendering productive badly degraded sandplain lands.