Troubles that almost sank 2011 flood hero

At 76, there’s no keeping Mr Hislop off the Brisbane River but while the paddlewheel party boat has her charms, it’s Mavis, the snub-nosed tug that stopped a concrete torpedo from walloping the Gateway Bridge 10 years ago, that has Hislop’s heart. In fact, there’s a photograph and caricature of the little tug above his bed at the retirement village in bayside Manly that he and wife, Lorraine, moved into more than two years ago. “Not a picture of me,” jokes Mrs Hislop. “Mavis, his…



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