Oral History - Lisa Shreeve

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Margaret Dawson OAM

2024

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Overview

This is an interview with Lisa Shreeve, talking about growing up, her family, education and community involvement. Then her career up until and including her appointment as CEO of the Busselton Jetty in 2015.

Historical information

Lisa and family moved to Busselton, and she travelled to Bunbury to work as Executive Officer of the Rural Development Association (RDA) in the South West assisting communities to get funding.
She then worked in Busselton as General Manager of Veolia Transport WA [an international company] based in Busselton with South West Coach Lines covering Busselton and Bunbury buses.
In 2015, Lisa was appointed CEO of the Busselton Jetty (then BJECA now Busselton Jetty Incorporated BJ Inc) and with her enthusiasm, drive, new ideas and her ability to relate to people and love of her role has been able to bring the Busselton Jetty forward to the huge international tourist attraction it is today with almost one million visitors a year.
The Jetty has won many awards but the ones that Lisa believes were the most outstanding efforts was winning the Sir David Brand Award for Tourism in 2019, and the Major Tourist Attraction in WA three years running.

For a copy of the full transcript, please contact us at oralhistory@busseltonhistoricalsociety.org.au

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2025.232

Themes

People

Social History

Keywords

Oral History Memoir

Place made

Australia

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