Bus named Nippy Nell once supplied scenic tours of Magnetic Island -a postcard produced by Murray Views ,Gympie, Queensland .
Right now the Magnetic Museum, one of the island's attractions, open five days a week , at Picnic Bay , is in need of volunteers. Included in its latest , always interesting exhibitions , in a section dealing with notable visitors , Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame is one of them .
Another notable was Prince Leonard Casley who set up the self proclaimed micronation of Hutt River in Western Australia and refused to pay taxes. The WA Supreme Court ordered him to pay $2.7million in back taxes; he eventually abdicated , appointed a son the new ruler , the principality was dissolved , and Prince Leonard died aged 93.
