“The Pilot’s Wife” and Hosting Tourism on Magnetic Island: A Memoir and Autoethnographic Enquiry of Place, Self and Narrative within Structures of Authority and Power

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“The Pilot’s Wife” and Hosting Tourism on Magnetic Island: A Memoir and Autoethnographic Enquiry of Place, Self and Narrative within Structures of Authority and Power

This thesis (exegesis and creative work, a memoir) draws on my experience of establishing a floatplane business with my husband Paul on Magnetic Island within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It describes events prior to and including an Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing in 2007 on the lega...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mills, Carol
Format:	Thesis
Published:	Curtin University 2018
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76666

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