Margaret Mills

Margaret Mills is an air hostess for Air Australia and (for a brief time) was married to Thomas Morello before going on to smuggle Iranian hashish for the mafia's Tehran Outfit.

Biography
Margaret was born in Newcastle, one of three children to Peter and Violet Mills. Peter was a high school principle and Violet a teacher. Margaret was educated at Newcastle Girls Grammar, learning to speak French fluently. During her younger years her parents travelled to England via ocean liner where Margaret developed the dream of adventure and romance. Soon after turning 19 she applied to join Air Australia and was one of only six applicants out of 2,000 to make the grade in that round of hiring in 1966.

Air Hostess
By 1967 she was flying the last of the Lockheed Super-Constellation's for Air Australia before the introduction of the Boeing 707 on all routes across the globe. Her destinations included: Japan, South Africa and India. She met Thomas Morello on a flight to South Africa and had intended the after-flight rendezvous to be a purely one-off sexual encounter but she was drawn to Morello's mystery and the gangster persona that surrounded the business he worked for.

They married in 1968 at a time when air hostesses were required to be un-married and childless. Margaret, not wanting to give up lifestyle, religiously kept the marriage a secret and maintained her maiden name.

By the 1970s Margaret had the Morello chapter behind her and enjoyed a single lifestyle. She continued to travel the world and enjoy a strong sex life, the biggest vice in her life. It was not until 1973 things took a new turn when Thomas Morello showed up with the offer for Margaret to traffic hashish on her flights out of Iran (as Tehran was the major re-fueling stop for Air Australia's 747s on the Australia to Europe route through the Middle East). The large sum of money for each run and the added thrill could not be resisted by Margaret and she agreed, even recruiting her friends and colleagues Doreen and Lorna to take part in the operation.

Relationship with Morello
Margaret and Thomas Morello formed their relationship and marriage through a lustful desire for pleasure and passion. She was fascinated by the mafioso life-style Morello lead and the perks it brought to her life. It was not until her husband went to prison for marijuana trafficking that the reality of the mafia business hit home. A string of murders in the New South Wales Riverina, a shake-up of the clan's power structure and the termination of an unwanted pregnancy was the catalyst for Margaret's decision to divorce Morello. In the 1970s, while trying to maintain a professional relationship during the height of her drug smuggling career, Margaret and Morello find that they cannot resist their sexual appetite for each other and have a number of raging affairs, even as far into Morello's later marriage with Jackie Carpenter.

Personality
Margaret's desire for adventure and romance is fuelled by her strong sex drive which often clouds her judgement. Pleasure is her greatest desire, whether through having sex or even smoking marijuana. The seemingly unlimited cash flow through hashish trafficking from the Middle East became a life changer for Margaret, discovering that money could buy her any desire. Her dream of a life of adventure and romance proved to be her tragedy as she is unable to back away from the gangster life that followed her.