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
54 episodes
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
Interview with Jo Smith - CircusWA
Jo Smith is Artistic Director of CircusWA – the Fremantle-based youth circus arts centre.Throughout the 90’s she worked between Sichuan-China, Darwin and Perth studying and teaching sociology and linguistics while developing an arts pra...
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Episode 39
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49:38
Interview with David Noakes
David Noakes has been involved in the Australian Film Industry at just about every level. And we’re pleased to say his film journey started here in Fremantle! These days, David is a Production Executive with FACB – First Australian Comp...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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55:34
Interview with Skip Lissiman
Skip Lissiman was the port trimmer on Australian II on 26 September 1983, the day she momentously met her destiny and outmanoeuvred the US defender, Liberty, in the seventh and deciding race off Newport, Rhode Island to win the America’s Cup.&n...
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Episode 37
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37:31
Interview with Chemutai Glasheen
Chemutai Glasheen is a teacher and an academic at Curtin University in Perth, and has a PhD in creative writing. She was brought up in Kenya and now lives in Australia. A book of her short stories, under the enticing title I Am the Mau & Ot...
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Episode 36
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32:48
Interview with Greg Campbell
In 1991, curious about the ways of humanity’s oldest continuous culture, Greg Campbell exited corporate life to live in the remote Kimberley region of Australia with a traditional Aboriginal elder and powerful maban (shaman), Lulu, and his peop...
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Episode 35
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1:01:43
Interview with Michelle Blakeley
In this not-to-be-missed podcast interview, Michelle Blakeley explains to our Editor, Michael Barker, the origins of her My Homes 18 social dwellings project for older women in Congdon Street, North Fremantle that was
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Episode 34
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42:57
Interview with Chrissie Maus
It’s only a couple months since Chrissie Maus took up the cudgels as the Chief Executive Officer of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce in this, the Chamber’s 150th year. The Perth-born Ms Maus comes well credentialed as the former head o...
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Episode 33
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28:16
Interview with Nicole Lockwood
Nicole Lockwood has a passion for sustainability and resilience building and the creation of thriving cities and communities equipped to embrace the challenges and opportunities of climate change and digital disruption. Which is just as...
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Episode 32
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46:13