DISAPPEARANCE OF LIBERAL LEADER AT SEA REVIVES BAFFLING CASE OF PRIME MINISTER HAROLD HOLT IN 1967

Spooky Shipping  Reporter Christmas Scoop 

Without any public announcement,  the large lifeboat  named after  an early Queensland Liberal leader, Sir Thomas Hiley, has disappeared from the Picnic Bay foreshore  on Magnetic Island, in  circumstances  similar  to  Liberal  Prime Minister Harold  Holt .

 This blog pointed out only days ago  that  Sir Thomas , in company with three  chooks, had  featured  above in an island  Christmas card designed by artist Angie Pollock. Now there is a strange gap in the foreshore   undergrowth from whence, somehow, the  vessel  has  vanished. 

There was a king tide recently and it is possible it lifted the boat, along with the  chooks, and they are now on the bounding main , a kind of Noah's Ark . Any mariner passing through Cleveland Bay should keep an eye out for a floating chook house and cut  the  cackle on the ship to  shore by  raising  the sighting . Please do not upset  the  hens by grabbing  them  as it may put them  off  laying . 

PM Holt , who spent  a lot of time scuba diving  in North Queensland, disappeared  without trace   while swimming at Cheviot  Beach , Victoria, on December 17,l967. A wild British report  years later claimed Holt was a Chinese spy !!!! and had  been taken away in a Chinese submarine !!!! Dame Zara Holt  said it was a ridiculous suggestion , as Harold did not like Chinese tucker . 

Holt  more into spearfishing than fried rice .

Due to the  puzzling disappearance of  Sir Thomas , PM  Scott Morrison has been advised by the AFP  and border security  not to engage in any fancy  Hawaiian board riding stunts  at Cronulla or staging media  photo opportunities at Bondi   portraying himself  as a typical  Aussie beach  bum  over  the  holiday  break .

In the event  that an upturned , prowling , foreign submarine is spotted beyond the breakers on  Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin , about to sink ,  the PM  has been  instructed   to take evasive action , run  like  hell , and  call in  Michaelia Cash  to  give  the unfortunate   submariners   mouth  to  mouth , followed by some powerful Australian  barley  broth  and her  home made   curry  when  they respond.