Fact #179141
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James Inglis, a politician and tea merchant of Sydney, Australia, Oceania, pays a sum of money to A. B. "Banjo" Paterson. It will later be claimed that this transaction was so that Inglis could acquire the right to use Paterson's lyric to the song Waltzing Matilda. In 1943, this transaction will be cited after parliamentary questions lead to a Commonwealth investigation into ownership of the song.