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FSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 8Welcome to Episode 8 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.Episode 2 deals with the raising the money through the auspices of Clan na Gael – the Irish Association in America – and how John Devoy became the key plotter of the escape. In Episode 3, we find ourselves in New Bedford in key meetings of key men. Devoy, Goff, Reynolds, Hathaway, Richardson – and George Smith...
2025-12-0241 minFSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 7Welcome to Episode 7 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.Episode 2 deals with the raising the money through the auspices of Clan na Gael – the Irish Association in America – and how John Devoy became the key plotter of the escape. In Episode 3, we find ourselves in New Bedford in key meetings of key men. Devoy, Goff, Reynolds, Hathaway, Richardson – and George Smith Anthony. And...
2025-11-0444 minFSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 6Welcome to Episode 6 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.Episode 2 deals with the raising the money through the auspices of Clan na Gael – the Irish Association in America – and how John Devoy became the key plotter of the escape. In Episode 3, we find ourselves in New Bedford in key meetings of key men. Devoy, Goff, Reynolds, Hathaway, Richardson – and George Smith Anthony. And...
2025-09-2244 minFSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 5Welcome to Episode 5 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.Episode 2 deals with the raising the money through the auspices of Clan na Gael – the Irish Association in America – and how John Devoy became the key plotter of the escape. In Episode 3, we find ourselves in New Bedford in key meetings of key men. Devoy, Goff, Reynolds, Hathaway, Richardson – and George Smith Anthony. And...
2025-08-2643 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Isla Scarvaci – Who Is Off To 6th WFDYS Children Camp In Ontario, CanadaThe 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 Fremantle Primary School student Isla Scarvaci is about to fly there, accompanied by her mother, Josie Hodgetts, to take part – as just one of four children selected Australia-wide.Isla is a year 5 student at Fremantle Primary School and is very involved in school life being a deputy councillor.In I...
2025-08-1432 minFSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 4Welcome 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. Episode 2 deals with the raising the money through the auspices of Clan na Gael – the Irish Association in America – and how John Devoy became the key plotter of the escape. In Episode 3, we find ourselves in New Bedford in key meetings of key men. Devoy, Goff, Reynolds, Hathaway, Richardson – and George Smith Anthony. And...
2025-08-0643 minFSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 3In 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 the money through the auspices of Clan na Gale – the Irish Association in America – and how John Devoy became the key plotter of the escape.In this, Episode 3, we find ourselves in New Bedford in key meetings of key men. Devoy, Goff, Reynolds, Hathaway, Richardson – and George Smith Anthony. And Anthony’s wife Emma. A suitable ship needs to be found an...
2025-07-3026 minFSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 1The 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 transported on the convict ship Hougoumont to Fremantle, arriving on 9 January 1868. In 1869 and 1871, pardons had been issued to many of the imprisoned Fenians. But not to the ‘military’ Fenians who remained in Western Australia’s penal system.In 1874, one of these ‘military’ Fenians, James Wilson, secretly sent a letter to New York City journalist John Devoy, who worked to organise a rescue. Using donat...
2025-07-2427 minFSN - Freo LifeThe Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 2The 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 transported on the convict ship Hougoumont to Fremantle, arriving on 9 January 1868. In 1869 and 1871, pardons had been issued to many of the imprisoned Fenians. But not to the ‘military’ Fenians who remained in Western Australia’s penal system.In 1874, one of these ‘military’ Fenians, James Wilson, secretly sent a letter to New York City journalist John Devoy, who worked to organise a rescue. Using donat...
2025-07-2421 min
Fremantle Dockers Football ClubFremantle EGM of Football Joe Brierty provides an update on Matthew Johnson and his injuryFremantle Executive General Manager of Football Joe Brierty, joined Mark Duffield on SEN WA to talk about the big win over the Pies, recap several outcomes from the game, and provide an injury update on midfielder Matthew Johnson, who escaped serious injury.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-07-2311 min
Fremantle Dockers Football ClubMurphy Reid talks about his Rising Star nomination and his AFL dream coming true after being drafted by FremantleFremantle rookie Murphy Reid joined SEN to talk about his Round 6 Rising Star nomination and his start to AFL life as a fully fledged Fremantle player.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-04-2315 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Professor Charles Watson AM – Neuroscientist, Public Health Guru, Health ScientistEmeritus 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 University, January 2017 to the present; Professorial Research fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia, 2007 to the present; Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience, University of Queensland, 2013 to the present; and Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, 2017 to the present.In the 1980s and later, Charles performed a number of significant senior public health roles in the WA Health Department. Most recently...
2025-03-1242 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Josh Wilson MP – Nuclear EnergyJosh 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 Party’s National Conference in Brisbane, Josh Wilson voiced his opposition to Australia’s signing up to the AUKUS deal with the US and the UK, involving the acquisition by Australia of nuclear powered submarines that will be rotated through HMAS Stirling at Garden Island, just across the Cockburn Sound from Fremantle.As David Crowe repo...
2024-12-1220 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes – 2024 Hungerford Award WinnerYirga 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 shepherd in Ethiopia to human rights academic at Curtin University, Western Australia Yirga’s background is as a writer, researcher and poet from Lalibela, Ethiopia, who now lives with his wife, writer Rebecca Higgie, in Bentley, WA, and teaches, researches and writes at Curtin University. Yirga’s prize winning manuscript’s English narrative was written over two years but the Amharic p...
2024-10-3044 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Linda Wayman - Journo, Radio Boss, Tourism Guru, Savvy CommunicatorLinda 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 Southern Cross Austereo’s WA General Manager of two Perth radio stations, Mix94.5 and Hit92.9. Currently, Linda is the principal of Wayman Advisory, chair of Carers WA, director of Carers Australia, and board member of Tourism Australia. She’s a busy, sought after person.She also has Freo coursing through her veins and is Chair of the City of Fremantle’s Destination Marketing Working Group just t...
2024-08-071h 04FSN - Freo LifeInterview with Rebecca James – Cruise Ship Waste DisruptorAs 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 together and sharing knowledge to collaborate on innovative solutions.When it comes to waste, Rebecca has a track record of challenging the status quo. In the northern goldfields of Western Australia she pioneered the backloading of supply trucks with valuable scrap metal from remote mine sites, where the proceeds were donated to the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. In the south-west of the State, she partnered...
2024-07-2238 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Sarah Booth - Freo Mover & ShakerSarah 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 it simply, in the language of the 70s, Sarah is a Mover and a Shaker. She gets things going. She asks questions. She doesn’t rest. And she loves Fremantle inside out.With over 15 years’ experience working nationally in the property and engagement space, Sarah has a special passion for turning vacant buildings and precincts into healthy, vibrant places of creativity and conn...
2024-05-2044 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Gerry MacGill - Longtime Freo activistGerry 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, you’ll know it’s him once you hear the Geordie burr. Born in Wallsend, right next to Newcastle, England, up there in the North where ships used to be built, just over 89 years ago, Gerry found his way to Fremantle via Canada, and after a short return to the UK to study in Londo...
2024-04-0254 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Jo Smith - CircusWAJo 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 practice in Live Art (performance installation). Her art practice was informed by her academic research and used site, material and the body to reflect these ideas. In 2006 she moved to the Great Southern and took up her first arts management role as Coordinator and Director of local festivals. In Denmark she headed the Brave New Works community arts festival and in Albany thei...
2024-02-0749 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Chrissie MausIt’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 of the largest retail and entertainment precinct in Australia – Melbourne’s Chapel Street. President of the Chamber, Mr Bartlett Lee observed of Chrissie on the announcement of her appointment that she will bring to the job an energy that is contagious. There’s no doubt about that. Fremantle Shipping News’ editor Michael Barker caught up wi...
2023-05-3028 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastPrema Arasu discusses The Anatomy of Witchcraft on the Fremantle Press podcastPrema Arasu has a one in six chance of winning $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Their manuscript, The Anatomy of Witchcraft, is in the running for the prestigious 2023 Fogarty Literary Award for Western Australian writers aged 18 to 35. The Anatomy of Witchcraft is a captivating young adult novel blending themes […]
2023-05-2218 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Nicole LockwoodNicole 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 well because she chairs Infrastructure WA, the Malka Foundation and Airbridge, is the Deputy Chair of the Green Building Council of Australia and a member of the boards of NBN and the Child and Adolescent Health Service. She also provides strategic advice to government and the private sector, overseeing major infrastructure and integrated planning initiatives, including the Future Fremantle Planning...
2023-05-1046 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Dr Ed FethersDr Ed Fethers is well known as the Voice of Sailing in Western Australia. He could also be titled Dr Sailing. But that might be confusing because Ed is also a Dr Doctor, who has been practicing as a GP around Fremantle for many years. Ed also has his own radio show, Let’s Go Sailing on 91.3 FM where he gives a weekly wrap on local, national & international sailing with interviews, roving reports and information on a range of interesting and useful sailing topics. Ed’s
2023-04-2744 min
Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 42: Monthly Accelerator - Destination MarketingThis exclusive Monthly Accelerator takes an authentic look at the retail economy through the lense of Destination Marketing, through three pillars of the PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE. Host Chrissie Maus takes a walk through some stand-out examples of destination marketing tactics and also share insights that are key to executing a successful marketing campaign. Joined by Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge & Linda Wayman, Chair of City of Fremantle's Destination Marketing Working Group, the panel will also discuss what Fremantle stands for, what our unfair advantages are, and what is Fremantle doing differently to market our unique port city.
2023-04-0553 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Jeremy DawkinsJeremy Dawkins has spent a good deal for his professional life thinking about Australian cities, especially Fremantle. Perhaps it’s not to be marvelled at.His Great Great Grandfather, John Septimus Roe, produced the very first town plan for Fremantle, at the request of Governor James Stirling, following the founding of the British Swan River Colony in 1829.His Great Grandfather, CY O’Connor, designed and constructed Fremantle’s famed Inner Harbour in the 1890’s.Between 1982-1988, Jeremy wrote the planning scheme and led the revival of the Fremantl...
2023-03-221h 18FSN - Freo LifeInterview with Lucky OceansLucky Oceans is so well known around Fremantle to anyone with even a passing interest in music that he hardly needs an introduction. He has played with many big names here in Australia and elsewhere. His work with the Zydecats around Freo is legendary. He’s also well known around the country for hosting the long running Radio National spot, Daily Planet where he helped improve the musical appreciation of a couple generations of Aussies. And he’s famous in his country of origin the USA, not least for nearly being more popular than the Beat...
2023-03-0758 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Bill Hare - COP27 OverviewBill Hare is the CEO and Senior Scientist at Climate Analytics and a climate advocate extraordinaire. He is just back in Fremantle after attending COP27 at Sharma El-Sheik, Egypt. Bill has had a long and impressive career as a climate advocate in Australia and internationally. At COP27, Bill was part of the delegation for Grenada, a small West Indian island state in the Caribbean. Bill and Climate Analytics have long advised small island states on the implications of climate change. Bill is also a veteran of COPs – or Conferences of Parti...
2022-11-2850 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Dr Michelle McKeoughDr Michelle McKeough is an historian working in Western Australian history, especially Fremantle history. In 2000, Michelle wrote Rescues, Rogues and Rough Seas, 150 years of Water Police in Western Australia. In 2012, she was a contributing author of Voices of the West End. For her Ph D thesis at Murdoch University in 2016, Michelle examined three times of crisis in Fremantle during the twentieth century: The Bubonic Plague; The Great War; and the Depression Era. Most recently Michelle has written This Fearful Plague, a history of the pandemic of Bubonic Plague experienced in Western Australia between 1900 and 1906, including in the Port C...
2022-11-1642 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastMaria Papas presents: Introducing Joy Killian-Essert, one of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award shortlisted authorsJoy Killian-Essert joins the podcast to chat with Maria Papas, winner of the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, about her manuscript, The Slow Patience of the Sea & Other Stories – an immersive and intimate collection of short stories that weaves its narrative closely with nature. For Joy, the process of writing has been […]
2022-10-1412 min
Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 39: Inside the Winners Circle 2022Join Fremantle Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan as she delves inside the hearts and minds of a few of our annual Fremantle Business Awards Winners Circle.
The journey to business success is a different experience for each business owner, and some pathways easier than others. This year’s winners circle seemed to reflect an endurance, a consistency and many family-owned businesses hit the stage.
This episode explores three very different business leaders and their views of their journey so far.
Joining us on the panel to answer the question WHY? are:
Chris Anc...
2022-10-0651 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastMaria Papas presents: Meet the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award shortlisted writer Marie O’RourkeMaria Papas, winner of the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, chats with Marie O’Rourke about her shortlisted manuscript, Kintsugi, a wise and gentle piece of narrative non-fiction. Kintsugi is inspired by the Japanese artform by the same name, celebrating beauty in breakage. Marie discusses how her manuscript uses a delicate touch to work with […]
2022-10-0516 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastMaria Papas presents: Gerard McCann – one of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award shortlistersGerard McMann joins Maria Papas, winner of the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, to talk about his manuscript called Tell Me the Story, a generous and insightful personal narrative non-fiction. Tell Me the Story is a compelling read that reinforces to publisher Georgia Richter that when a story is well told, anything is possible. […]
2022-09-3020 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Gerard McCannGerard McCann is a noted Fremantle architect – one of the famed Fremantle School. In his early professional days he worked closely with the renowned Brian Klopper. While Gerard grew up and was schooled in the Western Suburbs, he found his way to Freo because it was the place where he most felt at home. What people didn’t know was that Gerard, from the age of 10, was sexually abused by the local parish priest, a friend of the family. He has now written a manuscript – titled Tell Me The Story about his experience with sexual abuse and its af...
2022-09-2729 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastMaria Papas presents: Introducing shortlisted writer for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Molly Schmidt.On today’s podcast, Molly Schmidt discusses her manuscript, Salt River Road – a beautiful and moving piece combining verse and prose – with Maria Papas, winner of the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Salt River Road is set in the Great Southern region of Western Australia and follows the aftermath of a beloved mother’s […]
2022-09-2117 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Jason - Homeless Fremantle PersonFor the past 14 months, Jason (last name withheld at his request) has been homeless in and around Fremantle. By accepted measures, Jason would be regarded as ‘chronically homeless’ as he has ‘slept rough or in emergency accommodation for the past 6 months. In recent times, Jason’s situation has come to the attention of many Freo people, especially those doing their shopping at Peaches and IGA and the other shops at the South Fremantle Shopping Centre on Hampton Road where Jason can often be found. Jason kindly agreed to sit down with our editor, Michael Barker, to discuss his own...
2022-08-2642 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Norm MarinovichNorm Marinovich – better known around Fremantle and especially Fremantle Hospital as Dr Norman Marinovich OAM – is a long time Freo Person. If anyone were entitled to be called ‘Dr Fremantle’ it would be Norm. Not to be confused with the famous ‘Fremantle Doctor’ summer sea breeze! Norm’s parents, a decade apart, migrated to Western Australia from the country then known as Yugoslavia before the Second World War. His father’s father had already migrated before his son. His mother also had family here. After the War, Norm’s parents, with young Norm and his brother Mike, returned to Yugosl...
2022-07-181h 02Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 36: How to Green Your BusinessJoin Fremantle Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan in conversation with expert panel:
Miles Dracup – Principal at EAW Consulting Australia & Winner of the Mayors Award for Sustainable Enterprise at the 2021 Fremantle Business Awards
Ruth Cripps – Land and Restoration Lead (WA) at Greening Australia
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz – Founder Plastic Free July
As we deep dive into a fascinating conversation on how to green (and not greenwash) your business. The discussion includes practical tips for change, how to engage staff and customers and explores climate change, business systems, water management, plastics and the role of nature in our workplaces.
#doingbusinessinFremantle #greeni...
2022-07-071h 07
Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 35: LET'S TALK STRATEGY & BUDGETSLet's talk strategy & budget for financial year 2023. What's on the horizon and how do you plan for it? Is your business ready, and are you ready for the year ahead?
Join Fremantle Chamber of Commerce CEO, Danicia Quinlan in conversation with:
Susan O’Bryne – Project Director, Business Foundations
Russell Smith, Founder & Principal Consultant, CSG Marketing
Jason Figliomeni, Senior Manager, RSM Fremantle & Treasurer of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce
as we explore the big questions of planning and budgeting for business growth and success.
Sponsored by the City of Fremantle's Business Building Capacity Program.
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2022-06-011h 00FSN - Freo LifeInterview with Bill SamsonFremantle has many very interesting residents, Bill Samson not the least of them. His great great grandfather, Lionel Samson, from a well established English Jewish family, disembarked the HMS Calista, the fourth ship of free settlers to arrive in the Swan River Colony in 1829. They arrived in August. Captain Stirling, the founding Governor, and other hardy pioneers had arrived a couple months ahead of them, in late May and early June, on the HMS Parmelia and Sulphur. Captain Fremantle had arrived just before all of them on the HMS Challenger, in early May, to prepare the way...
2022-05-3151 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with David Whish-WilsonIn The Sawdust House, just published by Fremantle Press, David Whish-Wilson, in his ninth novel, has produced an astonishing work of literary art. In some ways it follows on from his 2018 historical fiction, The Coves, also set largely in San Francisco. But it is much more. The novel, a historical fiction, focusses on James ‘Yankee’ Sullivan, a real life boxing star in mid 19th century US. Yankee arrives in San Francisco via Ireland, England and Australia. The author sat down with our editor, Michael Barker, to discuss his career as a novelist, The Sawdust House, and Fremantle. It’s a wonde...
2022-04-2646 min
Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 33: Blue Gravity Takeover - Innovation in the Blue EconomyThe greater Fremantle region, and Cockburn Coast are emerging as a growing home of world leaders in harnessing the commercial, environmental and social opportunities presented in our oceans, and the blue economy. This podcast explores the early adopters and champions of growing sector of innovation. Join Fremantle Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan in conversation with:
· Patrick Moase - CEO Marine Biomedical
· Luke Jackson - General Manager Nebo
· Rebekah Manley - OneTide
· and closing words from Andrew Outhwaite - Managing Director For Blue
The Set the Month in Motion podcast forum is sp...
2022-04-0658 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Margo O'ByrneMargo O’Byrne is the author of a wonderful book, Left Unsaid – A triumph of sibling love over institutional care and parental neglect, published in 2009. In it and in this podcast, Margot explains how she and her brother navigated their way through traumatic childhoods, including as wards and in care, and how moving to Fremantle as young adults ultimately provided an opportunity for them to flourish. Today, Margo gives back to her community through her involvement with Tuart Place, a support and advocacy service for former care leavers – Stolen Generation, Forgotten Australians and former Child Migrants. She is a m...
2022-03-2551 minFSN - Freo LifeInterview with Josh WilsonBetween 2009 and 2016 Josh was as a councillor of the City of Fremantle. Between 2011 and 2016 he was the Deputy Mayor. In 2016, Josh was elected as the Labor Member for Fremantle in the Commonwealth Parliament. Since the 2019 election Josh has been the Shadow Assistant Minister for the Environment. Our editor, Michael Barker, had the good fortune to interview Josh and here’s the podcast. Enjoy!You can view the original article on Fremantle Shipping News here.Support the show
2022-02-0443 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 31: What does health and wellness mean in the workplace in 2022?The Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, together with Principal Sponsor Notre Dame University, will be hosting Fremantle's inaugural Health & Wellness Festival on February 24th to February 27th. As part of this celebration, we are launching the month with a conversation around what health and wellness means in the workplace 2022.
Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan is joined by medical practitioners and wellness experts from our Chamber membership base to discuss and debate how we should be preparing our workplaces for COVID-19, what do we need to do to give our staff and ourselves maximum protection in the lead up to...
2022-02-031h 01
FSN - Freo LifeInterview with Robby LangRobby Lang is a complete Fremantle institution. Known to all. Originally a Scot, he passed through California on his way to sunnier Fremantle. And stayed. While now a fully credentialed Freo person, he proudly retains his Scottish accent. Listen up as Robby recounts his story and gives us his take on Freo in this interview with our editor Michael Barker for Freo Life. View the original article on Fremantle Shipping News here.Support the show
2022-01-1146 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastHow to be an Author: Fremantle Press unpacks the secret of selling books to booksellers
By his calculations, Penguin Random House account manager Gavin Burbidge attempts to place 432 books into Australian bookstores per month. Across the publishing industry, that means your book will be competing against thousands of titles and your account manager’s pitch could be less than ten seconds long. For a deep dive into sales, Penguin Random House account managers Gavin Burbidge and Jane Parkhill join Claire and Georgia on the How to be an Author podcast. Meanwhile the final Comma Chameleon episode is all about the Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year and Georgia and Claire discuss the relative meri...
2021-12-0240 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 29: Leveraging Stakeholder Relationships for ProfitA business cannot operate in isolation and understanding how to leverage relationships, partnerships and build long term relationships with stakeholders should be part of any strategic plan. Understanding how partnerships and relationships can help your business is grow is even more pronounced in a regional community like Fremantle.
Join Fremantle Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan as she explores opportunities available through the City’s “Visit Fremantle” campaign and learn from leading experts on how they integrate stakeholder engagement into every day business growth.
Our panel includes:
Matt Hammond, Acting Director Business for the City of Fremant...
2021-11-041h 03Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 28: Inside the 2021 Winners CircleThe Fremantle Business Awards 2021 celebrated our past and present, the diversity of businesses in our Port region, and the networks between our greater Fremantle business community as we plan for a new future. Today we will hear from four of these innovative local companies on their survival skills, how they create new opportunities and find business growth.
The journey to business success is a different experience for each business owner, and some pathways easier than others. Join Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan as she explores the pathways to success with:
Tim Buckton – Manager of Fremantle Business Awards 2021 Wi...
2021-10-141h 08
The Fremantle Press PodcastThe Fremantle Press podcast: Leanne Hall of Readings says networking can be a beautiful, natural and organic thingLeanne Hall joins us on the podcast! We are so pleased to have a bookseller chat to us. Leanne is an author of young adult and children's fiction and works as an online children’s and YA specialist at the independent bookshop Readings. Once you’ve listened to this podcast you’ll feel like you know your local bookseller, and the business of selling books, a lot better.
Though she acknowledges the highly competitive nature of our industry, Leanne’s interview is brimming with tips and encouragement. Even her idea of networking makes it sound quite nice really. She...
2021-09-0330 min
Monthly AcceleratorLeaders Lunch 2021: Fremantle ConnectionsFremantle Connections, Planning & Infrastructure for the Future with The Hon. Rita Saffioti MLA. Minister for Transport, Planning & Ports in conversation with Chamber CEO and guests at the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Leaders Lunch 2021 as they explore the infrastructure and planning decisions required to:
· connect our harbours from Rous Head down to the AMC and further afield,
· connect our historic social, residential and economic heartland down the southern corridor, back into Fremantle,
· connect our historic heart to a beat of a sustainable, populated and modern urban centre of commercial and residential activity, and
·...
2021-08-1051 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastThe Fremantle Press podcast on how to be a children’s book author who knows how to presentLesley Reece, founder and former director of The Literature Centre, joins Claire Miller and Georgia Richter for a chat about how to prepare yourself to face a room full of under-17s! Leslie ìmparts top tips for aspiring children’s book writers while Claire and Georgia discuss the merits of book hoovering. Writer and editor Amanda Curtin shares her reading recommendations, and the Comma Chameleon has a slanging match with the hosts.
Topics discussed: Becoming a children’s book writer How sharing our mistakes makes us more engaging What makes a good children’s book pr...
2021-07-0231 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastMeet the 2021 Fogarty Literary Award ShortlistBrooke Dunnell, Patrick Marlborough and Georgia Tree each have a one-in-three chance of taking out Australia’s newest and richest literary award for young writers. In this special edition of the Fremantle Press Podcast, Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller chats to each of the 2021 Fogarty Literary Award shortlisted writers and invites Fremantle Press publisher, Georgia Richter, to discuss why each writer's manuscript rose to the top of the reading pile.The episode also includes a reading from each of the shortlisted manuscripts:The Glass House by Brooke Dunnell (South Perth) A Horse Held at Gunpoint by...
2021-05-2547 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastHow to be an Author who nails interviews and knows how to pitch
Georgia and Claire are joined by Rowena Morcom, Publisher and Editor of Good Reading Magazine, SpineOut and PK Mag, for a chat about what makes a good author interview and how authors make their way under the covers of her well-thumbed glossy pages for book lovers. Rowena dishes up a hot and greasy story about the things writers shouldn't do, and Claire and Georgia discuss using books in self-defence. Writer and journalist Anne-Louise Willoughby shares why resarch is vital and the Comma Chameleon shows how substandard Gen X is when it comes to choosing the right emoji.
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2021-05-2541 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastHow to be an Author: Let's discuss how to get the most out of your writing groupAre you in a writing group? Georgia and Claire are joined by Deborah Hunn co-author of How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia for a chat about the ins and outs of workshopping manuscripts. Invisible Boys author Holden Sheppard shares his tips for finding your unique voice and the Comma Chameleon helps us ‘pick the dinkus’.
Topics include:
Where to find a writing group and how to start one from scratch
When is it too early to workshop your manuscript?
How to give and receive constructive feedback
When to accept feedback and when to disca...
2021-05-0635 min
Fremantle Church SermonsFremantle Church Sermon: May 05, 2021Sermon: Resurrection Relationships: Who I am?
Scripture: Romans 8:9-17
Pastor: Lee Hinkle
Our Sermons can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean.
© Fremantle Church 2021
2021-05-0219 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 20: The Winner's CircleThe Fremantle Business Awards 2020 saw a new band of small businesses take centre stage. In our first Set the Month in Motion for 2020 we hear from three of these innovative local companies on their survival skills, how they created new opportunities and found business growth in such a challenging year.
Join Fremantle Chamber of Commerce CEO Danicia Quinlan in conversation with :
Ross Drennan from Fremantle's The Old Synagogue,
Jay Beeson from Old Bridge Cellars, and
Kirsten Lopez from South Beach Boardies
as they shared a very local spin on wha...
2021-03-0344 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastHow to Be an Author tackles the tricky business of how to make a book cover that sellsWelcome to the first How to Be an Author in Australia edition of the Fremantle Press podcast, co-hosted by marketing and communications manager Claire Miller and publisher Georgia Richter.
In the first episode, Georgia and Claire share the details of Georgia’s new book she co-wrote with Deborah Hunn, How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia, and share the details of the How to Be an Author in Australia Facebook group. They talk to designer Nada Backovic about her tips on how to get the best cover for your book, writer Meg McKinlay tells au...
2021-02-0329 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastDani Vee of the Words and Nerds podcast joins Rebecca Higgie for the final Fremantle Press Podcast of 2020What happens when you put two podcasters into one studio? You get podcast mashup audio magic! In this episode host Rebecca Higgie celebrates the release of her debut novel, The History of Mischief, while Dani Vee celebrates the three-year anniversary of her tiny podcast with big ideas, Words and Nerds.
English teacher, lit lover and self-confessed nerd Dani Vee describes her podcast, Words and Nerds, as a passion project created because of her love of literature and her desire to get into the minds of authors. Rebecca Higgie was thrown into the deep end as the Fremantle Press Podcast host a...
2020-11-3050 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 18: Art, Heritage, Culture and Design as Business AssetsFrom the intersection of Indigenous culture and the English settlers to the growth of our Port City, its diversity of cultures and now our incredible creative industries, Fremantle has some significant cultural, heritage and creative assets.
For many of our local businesses these assets form the base of their business - especially when we think of our Tourism operators, our hospitality venues, our galleries, our festivals and our architects and designers.
Join Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan and our expert panel to explore on a not often talked about part of business. How does place and c...
2020-11-0648 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastFrom Sherlock Holmes to hamsters and from Agatha Christie to moustaches: Alexander Thorpe and Dave Warner chat all things crime on the Fremantle Press PodcastIn Rebecca Higgie’s penultimate episode as host of the Fremantle Press Podcast, we’re talking crime. Veteran crime writer Dave Warner joins the podcast to talk about his fifth book, Over My Dead Body, while new kid on the block Alexander Thorpe discusses his historical cosy crime debut, Death Leaves the Station.
Join them as they travel from the 1920s and the Australian outback all the way to the mean streets of modern-day New York City. Sharing the journey will be a nameless friar, a missing corpse, a scientist who brings hamsters back from the dead and none other than...
2020-11-0346 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastShortlisted for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Maria Papas shares her manuscript about what it is like to bear witness as a sibling battles a serious and frightening illnessMaria Papas’s manuscript, I Belong to the Lake, is one of three unpublished manuscripts in the running to win the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. If she wins, she’ll secure herself a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle.
In this podcast, Maria chats to Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller about her frustration with how some narratives deal with cancer as a blip in the lives of the characters – not as a disease that can have a profound and lifelong effect on sufferers and family members alike.
This is the second t...
2020-10-0914 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastJoanna Morrison talks about her supernatural crime thriller, Still Dark, one of three manuscripts in the running to win the City of Fremantle Hungerford AwardJoanna Morrison’s manuscript, Still Dark, is shortlisted for the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. If she wins, she’ll secure herself a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle.
In this podcast she talks to Claire Miller about the process of working on her manuscript – a complex novel told from multiple points of view that combines elements of crime fiction and magic realism.
Music: ‘Letter to a Daughter of St George’, from The Meat Lunch EP: Songs from Floaters. Written by Alan Fyfe. Performed by Trevor Bentley (guitar and vocals – @trevormb) and Chris Parkinso...
2020-10-0910 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastShortlisted for the Hungerford Award, Sharron Booth's manuscript explores generations of family secrets, some of which she shares with us on the Fremantle Press podcastSharron’s manuscript, The Silence of Water, is one of three unpublished manuscripts in the running to win the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. If she wins, she’ll secure herself a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle.
In this podcast she talks to Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller about Western Australia’s convict past, about the lies and omissions in our history and about exile and the meaning of home. She also shares her path to the shortlist – a journey that saw her giving up on her manuscript more than once.
M...
2020-10-0813 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastIn this special City of Fremantle Hungerford Award podcast, Jay Martin and Julie Sprigg get to grips with writing narrative non-fictionWe’re celebrating 30 years of the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award this year by bringing together Jay Martin, author of Vodka and Apple Juice: Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland, and Julie Sprigg, author of Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia. Jay won the Award in 2016 and Julie was shortlisted for it in 2018.
Speaking about her debut book, out this month, Julie says she wasn’t prepared for the culture shock of living in Ethiopia, where she had to relearn how to do everything from the way she brushed her teeth to how she ate her dinner. She said she w...
2020-08-0651 min
Fremantle Arts Centre - FAC Chats PodcastEpisode 8 - Timothy Nelson, Odette Mercy, Jon FernandesTimothy Nelson, Odette Mercy and Jon Fernandes are fixtures of Western Australian music. Between them, they’ve won multiple WAM Awards and their talents have seen them traverse the folk, pop, rock, hip hop, soul and funk worlds. All three artists will appear at Fremantle Arts Centre’s upcoming Gallery Sessions, an intimate series of shows in our Main Gallery and Pavlich Room held every Thursday in August. Here they talk about the behind the scenes grind that goes into a great live show - and even more importantly - a great song. Gallery Sessions at F...
2020-07-2400 minFremantle Arts Centre - FAC Chats PodcastEpisode 7 - Revealed Exhibition 2020: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists. A Conversation with Natalie Davey and Jessica JubbThe Revealed Exhibition, currently open at Fremantle Arts Centre, showcases over 100 of the best new and emerging Aboriginal artists from Western Australia’s remote and regional art centres, as well as independent and Noongar artists from metropolitan Perth and the South West. In this episode, Revealed coordinator Katherine Wilkinson speaks with jewellery maker and Revealed artist Natalie Davey from Mankaja Arts in Fitzroy Crossing and Perth jeweller Jessica Jubb. Both artists create work inspired by the natural environment they live in and were able to swap creative ideas while Jubb, a non Aboriginal ar...
2020-07-0200 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 13: Mind, Body & Business in a Time of CrisisJoin Chamber CEO, Danicia Quinlan, in conversation with leading experts in mental, physical and business health as we explore how we deal the mental, emotion and physical challenges that the COVID-19 has brought to our lives. A thought provoking discussion suitable for all business leaders that covers:
How do we make decisions when our bodies are under stress?
How do we protect and manage our own mental health while trying to navigate our way through a mind field of unprecedented change and decision making?
How do we protect ourselves so we can lead in a time of crisis?
...
2020-06-081h 00
The Fremantle Press PodcastIn Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, award-winning authors Holden Sheppard and A.J. Betts talk about how to juggle actual writing time with the business of being a writerA.J. Betts had the idea for Hive eight years before she commenced writing it and 13 years before it was released. In between, she published three books, won an Emmy Award and did a PhD in the topic of wonder. A.J. said the idea for Hive came to her while she was on the Graham Farmer Freeway in Perth: ‘The traffic was really slow and I noticed the drip in the tunnel and I thought, that’s weird … In what situation would a drip be a problem or a danger?’
By contrast, Holden Sheppard wrote the first draft of Invisible...
2020-06-0152 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastSusan Midalia, Donna Mazza, Emily Paull and Bindy Pritchard talk turning points and the long and short of fiction writing on this week's episode of Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle PressWhat happens when you conference call with four talented Western Australian writers who are equally committed to short fiction as to long? Loads! Hosted by Susan Midalia, this episode of Love to Read Local Radio will give you a wonderful insight into where the urge to write comes from – those turning points in life which compel writers to put words on the page. Susan is joined by Emily Paull (Well-behaved Women), Bindy Pritchard (Fabulous Lives) and Donna Mazza (Fauna) to discuss the experience of writing short stories as opposed to that of writing full-length novels. To an outsider, both formats so...
2020-05-2740 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastIn Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, authors Helen Milroy and Brenton E. McKenna tell Madelaine Dickie stories are for everyone and are fundamental to our existenceIt has been an amazing two months of Love to Read Local Radio, and today’s episode is no different. We’ve brought together Madelaine Dickie (Red Can Origami), Helen Milroy (Backyard Birds) and Brenton E. McKenna (Ubby’s Underdogs Series) to discuss why they love to tell stories.
Helen says she’s always loved storytelling and would write in transit during her day job as a children’s psychiatrist. She was always fascinated by stories growing up, and she attributes this to her Indigenous background, where storytelling was always important. ‘Storytelling is a unique way to understanding your place in the world...
2020-05-2547 minFremantle Arts Centre - FAC Chats PodcastEpisode 3 - Gallery Talk, City of Fremantle Art Collection Curator Andre LipscombeClick Here to see the artworks discussed in this episode. Started in 1958, The City of Fremantle Art Collection includes some 1500 artworks which continue to shine a light on Fremantle's past and help us make sense of what it means to live and work in Fremantle today. In this episode the Collection's Curator Andre Lipscombe selects six significant works from City's collection as part of a virtual gallery talk. Click the link in the show notes to view the images while listening to this episode. The artworks discussed in this...
2020-05-2100 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastSeasoned crime novelists David Whish-Wilson and Pol Koutsakis discuss their current and upcoming books, cross-cultural humour and sense of place in their stories for this week's Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle PressWhat do you get when you put two criminal masterminds together? David Whish-Wilson and Pol Koutsakis talking books! In this fascinating episode, the pair discuss the hero – or antihero – in Pol’s two books, Athenian Blues and Baby Blue. Stratos Gazis, an ‘ethical hitman’, has a moral code that controls his choices and leads to intrigue. David’s PI Frank Swann is in a similar boat, falling into the thick of criminal dealings when all he wants is a simple, happy life as a family man.
The authors discuss how the prevailing sense of place in their novels is an integral part...
2020-05-1838 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 12 - Budgeting Through the Eye of the StormJoin us in conversation with Chamber CEO, as we think through what budgeting in such uncertain times could look like for our businesses, what the COVID-19 economic stimulus packages mean in real money terms and practical tips on how to apply budgeting and forecasting tools to your business.
Produced with the support of the City of Fremantle’s Business Capacity Building Program, we will be bringing the Set the Month in Motion forum to you using the best of our new technology to record remotely. Members are welcome to sign up to a few registered places to lis...
2020-05-0755 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 10 Creating Attractions & EventsJoin Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan as she explored with this Set the Month in Motion's panel what makes great Tourist Attractions and Events, how they stack up financially and how we gain loyalty that keeps locals and visitors coming back.
Supported by the City of Fremantle's Business Capacity Building Program, this conversation draws on the decades of combined expertise of our panel as we share case studies, stories and practical tips and tricks relevant for all local businesses in the game of creating experiences, building visitations and ensuring ongoing loyalty.
The Panel:
Paula N...
2020-03-0939 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 9 : Creating Positive Workplace CultureMany of our previous conversations have focussed on how we manage the external forces, create demand for our products and service, and get our products to market.
Today we are going to turn our eyes inward – to the places where we work, the teams that we create to deliver on our strategies, right down to how we improve the atmosphere around the shared tea prep coffee machine. Join Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan in conversation with:
Meena Silk - Director, The HR Dept
Mark Jeffrey - Business Development Manager Frichot & Frichot Law Firm
...
2020-02-0752 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 8: Closing the SaleThey say there is only one skill needed in the life, and that is to sell and more importantly to learn to sell yourself.
As part of the City of Fremantle's Business Capacity Building Program, the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce invites you to a series of learning conversations with Western Australia's leading business experts.
This live podcast recording is designed to build a platform for Fremantle Business to get immediate access to relevant, timely and important conversations.
This month, hear from three exceptional experts as they share their tips and tricks to build yo...
2019-12-1052 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastFrom the Hungerford award to an epic new novel, Madelaine Dickie chats to Holden Sheppard about writing, the Kimberley and Indigenous affairs on the Fremantle Press podcastMadelaine Dickie’s gripping new novel Red Can Origami explores the tensions between a Japanese uranium mining company and a Native Title group in regional Western Australia. In this episode of the Fremantle Press podcast, she explains how the Kimberley people and landscape inspired the story, why she chose to write it in the second person and the origin of the semi-dangerous game Swagmo.
Music: ‘Letter to a Daughter of St George’, from the Meat Lunch EP: Songs from Floaters. Written by Alan Fyfe. Performed by Trevor Bentley (guitar and vocals – @trevormb) and Chris Parkinson (harmonica). Produced by Blake Carnaby of Nuglif...
2019-12-0236 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 7: Social Media Tips, Tricks and PlansJoin Fremantle Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan in conversation for the latest Set the Month in Motion Q&A podcast from the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the City of Fremantle, with our panellists of local legends, as they dissect all the latest social media tips and tricks.
Our panel include marketing and social media experts Eithne Healy from Kailis Jewellery, Sarah Langley from Detail and Pim Pattanasuk from DGPR.
Learn how a strong social media presence can help your business grow, common pitfalls and how to avoid them, and what social media trends to...
2019-11-081h 04
Monthly AcceleratorFremantle Chamber Leaders Lunch 2019 : Perspectives on FremantleFremantle is on the cusp of significant change, join Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan in conversation with leaders of our diverse range of industries discuss the City's strengths, assets and growth potential in this honest and candid look at Perth's second urban City.
Expert Panel includes:
Geoffrey London – Professor of Architecture, UWA
Julian Smith - Pro Vice Chancellor - Strategy & Planning, University of Notre Dame
Brodie Carr – Managing Director, Tourism WA
Matthew McNeilly - Managing Director, Sirona Capital Pty Ltd
Eve Clark - Managing Director, L3 Harris
2019-10-301h 16
The Fremantle Press PodcastSexuality, masculinity and mental health: Holden Sheppard bares all in the latest episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast.Fogarty Literary Award winner Rebecca Higgie joins Holden Sheppard at the mic for this month’s episode of the Fremantle Press podcast.
Holden talks about his gritty debut YA novel Invisible Boys, which won the 2018 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. He explains how men play a part in shaping the concept of masculinity, touches on the importance of addressing mental health issues in young people and discusses how his own experiences as a gay man growing up in country Western Australia shaped the novel.
Mastered and edited by: Aidan d’Adhemar
Music: ‘Letter to a Daughter of St George’, from the Meat L...
2019-10-1759 minMonthly AcceleratorEpisode 5 - 'Experience' - Is it a Buzz word?This Set the Month in Motion Q&A podcast, in partnership with the City of Fremantle, examines 'Experience' - Is it a Buzz word?
Join Chamber CEO Danicia Quinlan in conversation with our esteemed panel experts:
Al Taylor, CEO Triple 1 Three Pty Ltd (Otherside Brewhouse and venues Otherside Brewing and Freo.Social). He is also the President of West Australian Music (WAM) and former Group MD / Chairman of 303 MullenLowe
Kate Hulett, owner of Kate+Abel & Director of Spacemarket. Her dynamic portfolio of work includes MANY 2.0, Kings Square Redevelopment & the Fremantle Biennale
Rikki Clarke, Director of C...
2019-09-1055 min
The Final Siren Podcast with Duck and OzRound 23 | Freo v Port AdelaideDuck and Oz preview the final game of the season against Port Adelaide from the eyes of two tragic Freo supporters in . The boys digest the big news of Ross Lyon and Steve Rosich departing the club earlier in the week and feature a 'careless whisperer' in their segment 'Dual Citizens'.The Purple PatchThe Purple Patch: Episode 11 - Rd 23 v Port Adelaide0.24: Reflection on the departure of Lyon and Rosich7.44: Fans PerspectiveWho should be Fremantle's new CEO?Who should be Fremantle's new coach?23.50: Ins and OutsIN - Banfield, Bewley, Nyhuis, Colyer, Carter and JonesOUT - Sandilands and...
2019-08-2234 min
The Final Siren Podcast with Duck and OzRound 22 | Freo v EssendonDuck and Oz preview the round 22 clash against the Bombers from the eyes of two tragic Freo supporters in . The boys give pay tribute to Freo greats Sandi and Ballas, give their predictions for the upcoming match and feature a famous yo-yo Freo Docker in their segment 'Dual Citizens'.The Purple PatchThe Purple Patch: Episode 10 - Rd 22 v Essendon0.24: Introduction1.25 Ins and OutsIN - McCarthy and BallantyneOUT - Banfield and Carter6.50: Key Match-upsConnor Blakely v Anthony McDonald-TipungwutiAaron Sandilands v Zac ClarkeMichael Walters v Zach Merrett Hayden Ballantyne v Connor McKenna17.50: Dual CitizensAdam McPhee - Fremantle (81 games) + Essendon (142...
2019-08-1533 min
The Final Siren Podcast with Duck and OzRound 21 | Freo v St KildaDuck and Oz preview the round 21 clash against the Saints from the eyes of two tragic Freo supporters in . The boys give their predictions for the upcoming match and feature a name-changing Freo Docker in their segment 'Dual Citizens'.The Purple PatchThe Purple Patch: Episode 9 - Rd 21 v St Kilda0.24: Introduction4.20 Ins and Outs - Squad SelectionIN - McCarthy, Colyer, Nyhuis, Ballantyne8.00: Key Match-upsEthan Hughes v Tim MembreyBailey Banfield v Seb RossReece Conca v Jack BillingsSam Switkowski v Shane Savage16.38: Dual CitizensHeath Black - Fremantle (69 games) + St Kilda (54 games)20.45.00: First Time They MetRound 10, 1995 at Waverley ParkDavo Muir...
2019-08-0826 min
The Final Siren Podcast with Duck and OzRound 20 | Freo v GeelongDuck and Oz preview the round 20 clash against the Cats from the eyes of two tragic Freo supporters in . The boys give their predictions for the upcoming match and feature Freo's first ever cult figure in their segment 'Dual Citizens'.The Purple PatchThe Purple Patch: Episode 8 - Rd 20 v Geelong0.24: Introduction2.10 Ins and OutsIN - Carter (Debut), Switkowski, Banfield, Crowden and HughesOUT - Lobb (inj), Ryan (inj), Wilson (inj), Ballantyne & Bewley4.45: Key Match-upsJason Carter v Gary AblettConnor Blakely v Mitch DuncanAndy Brayshaw v Joel SelwoodBailey Banfield v Tom Stewart10.00: Top Five Freo Country Players5. Jeff Farmer...
2019-08-0124 min
The Final Siren Podcast with Duck and OzRound 19 | Freo v Western BulldogsDuck and Oz preview the round 19 clash against the Bulldogs from the eyes of two tragic Freo supporters in . The boys give their predictions for the upcoming match and feature a fan favourite in their segment 'Dual Citizens'.The Purple PatchThe Purple Patch: Episode 7 - Rd 19 v Western Bulldogs0.24: Introduction2.40 Ins and OutsIN - Ballantyne, Banfield, Crowden, Fyfe, SchultzOUT - McCarthy7.00: Key Match-upsEthan Hughes v Sam LloydDarcy Tucker v Jackson MacraeNat Fyfe v Marcus BontempelliMichael Walters v Caleb Daniel14.20: Dual CitizensSteven Koops - Fremantle (78 games) + Western Bulldogs (11 games)18.20: First Time They MetRound 5, 1995 at Western Oval22.54: Bold PredictionsOz...
2019-07-2526 min
The Final Siren Podcast with Duck and OzRound 18 | Freo v Sydney SwansDuck and Oz preview the round 18 clash against Sydney from the eyes of two tragic Freo supporters in . The boys give their predictions for the upcoming match and feature a hard nut with a purple presence in their segment 'Dual Citizens'.The Purple PatchThe Purple Patch: Episode 5 - Rd 18 v Sydney Swans0.24: Introduction1.30: Ins and OutsIN - Sandilands, Duman, Logue, BewleyOUT - Fyfe (inj), Nyhuis, Hughes, Colyer3.55: Key Match-ups· Nathan Wilson v Tom Papley· Darcy Tucker v Luke Parker· David Mundy v Josh Kennedy Adam Cerra v Jake Lloyd9.30: WIN a trip to NASA, Florida thanks to Pro...
2019-07-1822 min
Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 3 - Leasing in a Challenging Market As part of the City of Fremantle's Business Capacity Building program, the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the City of Fremantle, invite you to a series of learning conversations with Western Australia’s leading business experts.
This live podcast recording is designed to build a platform for Fremantle businesses to get immediate access to relevant, timely and important conversations.
This month we're exploring ‘Leasing in a Challenging Market’ and we’re joined by
Nick Gvozdin from Frichot & Frichot, a commercial lawyer
Kym Thomason from NTY Commercial, a Property Manager representing landlords & tenants across Perth
Cr...
2019-07-1252 min
Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 2 - Activating your Space for ReturnAs part of the City of Fremantle's Business Capacity Building program, the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the City of Fremantle, invite you to a series of learning conversations with Western Australia’s leading business experts.
This live podcast recording is designed to build a platform for Fremantle businesses to get immediate access to relevant, timely and important conversations.
This month we're exploring how to activate retail or hospitality space for maximum return and we're excited to be joined by:
Kristi Dempster from Assembly & Co
Kate Hulett from Spacemarket
Simone Pirovich from Work.S...
2019-06-181h 11
Monthly AcceleratorEpisode 1 - Navigating Tight Cash FlowAs part of the City of Fremantle's Business Capacity Building program, the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the City of Fremantle, invite you to a series of learning conversations with Western Australia’s leading business experts.
This live podcast recording is designed to build a platform for Fremantle businesses to get immediate access to relevant, timely and important conversations.
This month we're exploring how to navigate tight cash flow and we're joined by
RSM Small Business Accountant Tom Huberli
CommBank Small Business Expert Luke Jackson
Left Bank's Venue Manager Peter Watts.
2019-05-0949 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastThe Fremantle Press podcast takes you beyond books to discuss different formats for storiesWe know you all love to write, but writing a book isn’t the only way you can follow your passion. In our latest podcast, recorded live at the Business of Being a Writer event at Perth Festival Writers Week, Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser was joined by award-winning screen director Alison James, Black Swan State Theatre Company Literary Director Polly Low and Red Room Poetry Director Tamryn Bennett. The panel discussed adapting books for the stage, creating scripts, using dialogue to advance the story and publishing poetry in unconventional places – from a bus shelter to a packet of seeds.
This...
2019-05-0141 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastChristmas in Poland? Vodka and Apple Juice author Jay Martin is our latest guest on the Fremantle Press podcast.2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford winner Jay Martin takes us behind diplomatic doors and into the Australian Embassy deep in the heart of Europe. Christmas, she says, will never be the same.
2018-12-1120 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastIntroducing Alan Fyfe, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardAlan Fyfe is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast he talks to Claire Miller about his manuscript 'Floaters'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-10-2912 minThe Fremantle Press PodcastIntroducing Julie Sprigg, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardJulie Sprigg is one of six writers shortlisted for the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast she speaks to Claire Miller about her manuscript 'Chewing Porridge'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-10-2207 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastIntroducing Holden Sheppard, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardHolden Sheppard is one six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast he speaks to Claire Miller about his manuscript 'Invisible Boys'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-10-1510 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastIntroducing Zoe Deleuil, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardZoe Deleuil is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast she talks to Claire Miller about her manuscript 'She Came to Stay'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-10-0806 min
The Fremantle Press PodcastIntroducing Trish Versteegen, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardTrish Versteegen is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast she talks to Fremantle Press about her manuscript 'The Seventh Sister'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-09-2407 min
Fremantle PressIntroducing Holden Sheppard, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardHolden Sheppard is one six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast he speaks to Claire Miller about his manuscript 'Invisible Boys'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-09-2010 min
Fremantle PressIntroducing Alan Fyfe, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardAlan Fyfe is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast he talks to Claire Miller about his manuscript 'Floaters'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-09-2012 min
Fremantle PressIntroducing Trish Versteegen, shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford AwardTrish Versteegen is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. In this podcast she talks to Fremantle Press about her manuscript 'The Seventh Sister'. Recorded at Radio Fremantle.
2018-09-2007 min