Now high and dry , this overgrown lifeboat , complete with an empty Bundy Rum bottle in the locker and mutiny inducing breadfruit growing out of the bilge , is from a vessel named after a former Queensland Treasurer , Sir Thomas Alfred Hiley (1909-1990) . Like Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and former Treasurer Joe Hockey , Sir Thomas liked a cigar ; he also wore a carnation.
As a reward for looking after the Sunshine State's purse from 1957 to 1965 , a dredge was named after him : Sir Thomas Hiley , based in Brisbane , capable of carrying 42 passengers. How a lifeboat from the mud slinger ended up abandoned on a beach on Magnetic Island may be revealed in the budget papers in April . It seems the vessel became the Yong Ho1 in 2001 , sailing under a South Korean flag , and may have been eventually scrapped .
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Knighted trailer suction hopper dredge , lifeboat on high near stern.
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Meanwhile, with the Morris Ship of State fast sinking , crew members deserting in droves, the lifeboat may be patched up and, in a Dunkirk act of desperation , pressed back into service to pick up the few survivors of an election . Lurking in Cleveland Bay , like a U-boat , is Clive Palmer's Titanic ll, intent on scuttling Coalition rescue bumboats .
