FSN - Freo Life
Fremantle Shipping News at https://fremantleshippingnews.com.au is an online magazine all about the historic port town, Fremantle in Western Australia. Fremantle is known for its vibrant community and as an incubator of ideas, activism and talent of all sorts - in literature, arts, music, politics, the environment - you name it.
Episodes
63 episodes
Interview with Isla Scarvaci – Who Is Off To 6th WFDYS Children Camp In Ontario, Canada
The 6th WFDYS Children Camp — organised by the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section – is set to take place in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada from August 23 to 29, 2025.And 10 year old, White Gum Valley girl and F...
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Episode 63
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32:39
Interview With Geoff Hutchison – Grumpy Old Buggers
Well known media guy, and now a newly minted Freo author, Geoff Hutchison has just seen his first book, How Not To Become A Grumpy Old Bugger published by Affirm Press, a Simon & Schuster company.As the publisher says o...
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Episode 62
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27:56
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 4
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series.In Episode 1, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, sets the scene for the famous 1876 Catalpa Escape of the ‘Military’ Fenians from just south of Fremantle, Western Australia. ...
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Episode 61
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43:04
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 3
In Episode 1 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, set the scene for the famous 1876 Catalpa Escape of the ‘Military’ Fenians from just south of Fremantle, Western Australia.Episode 2 deals with the raising ...
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Episode 60
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26:15
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 1
The Catalpa Escape was the escape, on 17 April 1876, of six Irish ‘military’ Fenians from the ‘Convict Establishment’, now Fremantle Prison, in the then British colony of Western Australia. A number of Fenians were initially transpo...
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Episode 59
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27:59
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 2
The Catalpa Escape was the escape, on 17 April 1876, of six Irish ‘military’ Fenians from the ‘Convict Establishment’, now Fremantle Prison, in the then British colony of Western Australia. A number of Fenians were initially transpo...
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Episode 60
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21:51
Interview with Chuckie Raven – 2025 Fogarty Literary Award Winner
Chuckie Raven is the 2025 Fogarty Literary Award winner. The Award was announced Tuesday night at the Western Australian Government House Ballroom. Chuckie Raven receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation, a publishin...
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Episode 58
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27:21
View from the Round House with Martin Drum - The Pope, The Papacy, The Vatican as a State
With the Australian Federal elections pretty much over – bar some shouting – and the Ministers in the new Albanese Government appointed, and so much happening elsewhere around the globe just now, the Prof and I decided to turn out attenti...
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Episode 57
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29:44
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – The Wrap
Welcome to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Well the Australian National elections are over. The Albanese Labor Government has been re-elected with an increased majority. The minor parties and a nu...
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Episode 56
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24:55
Interview with Professor Charles Watson AM – Neuroscientist, Public Health Guru, Health Scientist
Emeritus Professor Charles Watson has done it all, well, if not exactly all, then nearly all in the fields of neuroscience, public health and health sciences.Charles is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences, Curtin U...
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Episode 55
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42:47
Interview with Mark Nelson – Biospherian
In early 1993, after spending just over 2 years inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, USA, Mark Nelson emerged from the artificial sphere into the natural atmosphere of Biosphere 1 – Planet Earth – with his 7 fellow Biospherians.Mark ...
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Episode 54
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1:01:36
Interview with Ilaria Mazzoleni - NAHR & Transect of Coexistence
Ilaria Mazzoleni is the General Editor of Transect of Coexistence: Inquiry into Nature, Art, and Habitat, a recently published book that collects the outcomes of a decade-long collaboration between scholars and creatives, who, thr...
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Episode 53
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28:24
Interview with Fraser Maywood - Sustainable Energy Now
Fraser Maywood is the Chair of Sustainable Energy Now, a non profit formed in 2006, that advocates for how Western Australia can make a swift and orderly transition to clean renewable electricity safely, reliably, and affordably with commercial...
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Episode 52
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36:00
Interview with Josh Wilson MP – Nuclear Energy
Josh Wilson is the Member for Fremantle in the Federal Parliament. Since July this year, he has also been the Assistant Minister (to lead Minister, Chris Bowen) for Climate Change and Energy.In August this year, at the Australian Labor ...
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Episode 51
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20:57
Interview with Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes – 2024 Hungerford Award Winner
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes has won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope. Written in English with accompanying Amharic poetry and prose, Yirga has written about his journey from boy shephe...
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Episode 50
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44:46
Interview with Sophie McNeill - Walkley Awards Winner, Would-be Greens Pollie
Sophie McNeill is probably best known as a television reporter for the ABC’s investigative program Four Corners and as a Middle East Correspondent for ABC News delivering prime time reports from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen...
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Episode 49
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44:25
Interview with Holden Sheppard – The Freedom to Read
When a young Holden Sheppard realised blokes weren’t meant to talk about feelings, he began to write stories instead. Twenty years later, the boy from Geraldton, Western Australia is a multi-award winning author – with a treasured black ute!
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Episode 48
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42:10
Interview with Linda Wayman - Journo, Radio Boss, Tourism Guru, Savvy Communicator
Linda Wayman has a background in journalism, marketing, public affairs, communications, business development, and commercial and business leadership, with an eclectic mix of government and commercial knowledge. For nearly 15 years Linda was Sou...
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Episode 47
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1:04:02
Interview with Rebecca James – Cruise Ship Waste Disruptor
As Senior Environmental Advisor for Fremantle Ports, Rebecca James is focused on issues such as marine environmental protection, decarbonisation and embedding circular economy principles. She is passionate about bringing relevant stakeholders t...
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Episode 46
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38:09
Interview with Richard King - Thinker, Author, Critic, Poet
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Richard King gained an MA in Literary History and Cultural Discourse from the University of Sussex, England, before moving to London to work in bookselling and develop his own writing career. Since...
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Episode 45
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49:31
Interview with author Kim Scott - BENANG from the heart
25 years ago, BENANG from the heart took the Australian publishing world by storm and made Kim Scott, a household name and a pathfinding Australian indigenous author. His novel swept the awards season, winning the West...
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Episode 44
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41:11
Interview with Sarah Booth - Freo Mover & Shaker
Sarah Booth has a broad resume with a central focus: community. She currently acts as General Manager of Fremantle-based urban-renewal organisation, Spacemarket, and as Community Development Lead with property groups, Hesperia and Fini. To put ...
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Episode 43
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44:17
Interview With Gemma Farrell – Jazz Saxophonist, Bandleader, And Composer
Gemma, another Fremantle connected creative, is a talented, and busy, musician, bandleader and composer. And to prove it, she, with the Gemma Farrell Quintet, has a new album – her 9th and the Quintet’s 3rd – titled Electronic, coming out on 3 ...
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Episode 42
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1:03:36
Interview with Gerry MacGill - Longtime Freo activist
Gerry MacGill is so well known around Freo that he hardly needs a last name. ‘Gerry’ is usually a sufficient reference. People will know immediately who you are referring to. But if you are still unsure whether the fellow in the group is Gerry,...
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Episode 41
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54:47
Interview with Chris Owen - Mapping Massacres
High school curricula around the country today engage in a degree of Truth Telling, and teach non indigenous kids what their parents and grandparents often only heard hinted at – that First Nations peoples around Australia’s frontiers were ofte...
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Episode 40
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40:37