Background
Jim Moroney was born on 17 December 1898 in Bochara, Victoria.
Jim Moroney was born on 17 December 1898 in Bochara, Victoria.
Foreign schooling, he attended Street Patrick"s College, Ballarat.
Moroney began his Commonwealth public service career in 1916, in Melbourne as a clerk at the Prime Minister"s Department. He went on to work in the Department of Markets and Migration, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Commerce and Agriculture. In February 1956, Moroney was appointed Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry.
Moroney died of cancer in Canberra on 30 August 1965, aged 66.