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| The Twins | Hop |
Livingston Hopkins, The Twins, The Bulletin, Vol. 10 No. 513 (14 Dec 1889, p.3) http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-443533574
The Twins—after a recent (word) painting by Sir Thos. M’Ilwraith.“Mr. Morehead has all his life been one of a pair of twins. He has over had a peculiar faculty of discarding his twin and assimilating another. Mr. Pattison is his latest twin.” —M’Ilwraith in the Brisbane Courier [newspaper].
[Ed. 'Hop' depicts two members of the QLD Legislative Assembly (Pattison and Morehead) as infants drinking out of the same bottle labeled 'Mount Morgan'. This refers to a scandal concerning conflicts-of-interest and corruption over the leases and shareholdings related to the Mount Morgan gold-mining concern. QLD Premier McIlwraith, despite his disavowals, was implicated, but no one was held legally accountable. See biographies, Don Dignan, 'McIlwraith, Sir Thomas (1835–1900)'; June Stoodley, 'Pattison, William (1830–1896)'; and 'Morehead, Boyd Dunlop (1843–1905)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.]
