Australian idiom and its laconic accent. Ads such as "I’m as Australian as Ampol”, "Hit 'em with the Old Pea Beau" (insectide), "Everybody loves Speedo”, "I Can Feel a Fourex Coming on", "Every Amco tells a Story" (for Amco jeans) all came out of the Mojo agency in the 1980s. The use of Peter Allen's I Still Call Australia Home to promote Qantas was developed at Mojo in the late 1980s and until 2011 this campaign concept was still used by Qantas and its ad agencies. In August 1987 Mojo was acquired by the Melbourne-based publicly listed agency Monaghan Dayman Adams Limited and became MojoMDA. The resultant merged business maintained its listed status until 1989. The Mojo MDA Group had offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore and affiliates throughout Asia. In 1988 Advertising Age named it as International Agency of the Year. In August 1989 the Mojo MDA Group was Australia's largest ad agency with billings of $180million and was acquired by the Los Angeles agency Chiat\Day. The merger was unsuccessful and in 1992 Chiat/Day sold off Mojo to Foote, Cone & Belding. In later international dealings which saw FCB acquired by the Interpublic Group, the Australian Mojo offices were sold to Publicis. Morris had a successful stint at Singleton Ogilvy & Mather from the mid to late '90s. In 1999 he teamed up again with Johnston back at Hertz Walpole when Jim Walpole offered them both a shareholding and that agency was at that point renamed "Morris Johnston Walpole". The re-unification failed to set the advertising world on-fire and in 2002 the veterans accepted an offer for sale from the Japanese multinational communications group Hakuhodo. In 2006 he started an agency named "Yabber" with his brother Don and with TV personality Jamie Durie. A year later Morris lost his ongoing battle with cancer. Personal life Alan Morris was at one point married to the Australian television actress and screenwriter Judy Morris. He has a daughter Michaela Morris with Judy and sons Asher and Ronnie with his second wife Lissa. Accolades Together with Johnston, Morris was acknowledged by his peers with admissions to the Halls of Fame of Campaign Brief (magazine) in 2006 and the Australian Writer and Art Directors Association in 2009. In 2009 Morris & Johnston were included in the inaugural 12 inductees to Ad News magazine's, Australian Advertising Hall of Fame. In 2007