Latitude 40: Stories from the Edge: Flinders Island, Tasmania

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Mrs P And The Island Shop - Colleen Patterson

2026-08-3020:07

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, affectionately known as Mrs P, whose life on Flinders Island charts a living history of the Furneaux Islands. We talk about arriving from Hobart with a nursing background, buying the little shop ...

From Bridges to Bushfires - Pete Sherriff

2026-08-1548:46

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 manufacturer of concrete bridges, council warden negotiating airport funding, shipping advocate, and fire brigade captain coordinating communications during the 2003 bushfire. Jamie sits down with Peter ...

Deal Island, Five Times Over - Spud and Kim Murphy

2026-07-1743:34

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 deep affection for wild places and they don’t just talk about Deal Island in Bass Strait, they’ve lived it, five separate times, as volunteer caretakers in the Kent Group. We follow t...

It's Twice as Important to Be Trusted - Tony Power & Will Broadbridge

2026-06-2733:22

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 Senior Sergeant Tony Power and current Senior Constable Will Broadbridge. Tony takes us back through the history of policing across the islands and the reality of a role shaped by necessity. We talk a...

It's a Community Place - John Cooper

2026-06-0552:36

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 people who make island communities what they are. From his family roots at Woodlands near Emita, John shares memories of growing up in the dairy shed, supplies arriving on the cream truck, school d...

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Latitude 40: Stories from the Edge: Flinders Island, Tasmania