Named after a former prominent Queensland Liberal leader, Sir Thomas Hiley , this hulk symbolises the state of the current disintegrating Coalition . The interior of the vessel looks like the aftermath of the recent West Australian meeting where gyrating Senator Michaelia Cash whipped No voters in the forthcoming Voice referendum into a frenzy , like crazed galley slaves .
Thomas Alfred Hiley , an accountant , was Queensland's Treasurer from 1957-l965 and a Deputy Premier, knighted in 1966.
The boat , high and dry at Cockle Bay, Magnetic Island , was a tender for a Brisbane dredge named after him , the subject of Turning Mud Into Money ,1971-2000, by Brian Russell, a brief history of a major Queensland dredger.
Now the Coalition is not only repeatedly muddying the waters on many important national issues, it is dredging up all kinds of faux mud in the looming referendum , including John Howard's threat that your backyard could be seized by First Nation people, Chuck in Tony Abbott on the No side . Sky after darkers , the infighting Nationals , the One Nation barnacles and you have the impression of a veritable ship of scurvy fools ,who should be pushed out to sea - with more than 42 pasengers aboard - and used for Tomahawk missile target practice .
