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Latitude 40 : Stories from the Edge: is a podcast from the Furneaux Collective Inc, sharing conversations from Flinders Island at 40 degrees south. Through honest dialogue and local voices, the podcast explores what it means to live, lead and belong on a small island community navigating change.
Born from the Islander Way regenerative tourism journey, Latitude 40 has grown into something more - a space where community members reflect on leadership, resilience, enterprise, inclusion and the evolving relationship between people, place and visitors.
Each episode captures lived experience. Real conversations about how a remote island community shapes its own future - socially, economically and environmentally.
The Furneaux Collectives Latitude 40 Podcast is supported by the Tasmanian Government.
Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
34 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
16 episodes
since July 27, 2022
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
A corner shop in Lady Barron can be more than a place to buy bread and an Icy Pole. It can be the post office, the newsagency, the petrol pump, the unofficial counselling room, and the spot where kids get their first job and their first taste of being trusted.Jaacqui is joined by Colleen Patterson,…
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Three months on Flinders Island was meant to be a quick posting. Nearly 60 years later, Peter Sheriff has lived enough working lives for a whole town: postmaster on a manual phone exchange, farmer through collapsing wool markets and soaring interest rates, builder and cartage operator, local manufa…
A remote island can sound like a postcard until you’re the one carrying months of supplies, keeping tracks clear, and watching the weather decide whether you arrive by boat or plane. We’re joined by Spud and Kim Murphy, a Flinders Island couple whose lives are shaped by hard work, community, and a …
Policing on a small island can’t hide behind job titles. When everyone knows your name and your face, trust becomes the first tool you reach for, long before paperwork or penalties. On Flinders Island in Tasmania’s Furneaux Group two men have worn the same uniform in very different eras: former Sen…
A baby crosses Bass Strait to Flinders Island in a cupboard drawer, and eight decades later that same kid is still showing people what steady work, resilience and community look like. In this episode, Jacqui sits down with her dad, John Cooper, to explore a life shaped by the land, the sea, and the…
In this episode of Latitude 40 Season 2 - Stories from the Edge, Jacqui Cooper sits down with long-time Flinders Island local Gwen Bailey for a heartfelt conversation about family, faith, resilience and the deep connections that shape island life.
From her family’s early ties to Vansittart Island a…
A suburban newspaper ad. A leap of faith. A rough crossing filled with diesel fumes, cattle smells and the kind of uncertainty that tells you life is about to change. Jacqui sits down with Dawn Zelman, an accomplished artist, teacher, cook and storyteller who arrived on Flinders Island in 1987 and …
In Episode 2 of Latitude 40 Season 2, Jamie West sits down with long-time island builder Guy Ireland for a warm and thoughtful conversation about life, resilience and community on Flinders Island.
From an unexpected encounter with hitchhikers in New Zealand that eventually led him to the island, to…
In the first episode of Latitude 40 Season 2, Jacqui Cooper sits down with Flinders Mayor Rachel Summers for an honest and heartfelt conversation about community, leadership and life on a remote island.
From accidentally moving to Flinders Island after confusing it with Bruny Island, to becoming Ma…
Debbie and Josie speak with Ben Backhaus about his family business, Bush Pharmacy, where Ben distills essential oils grown and harvested on Flinders Island. You can almost smell the aromas as Ben describes the range of oils. Ben attributes the unique properties of the oils to the geographic isolat…
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