About Latitude 40: Redesigning tourism on a small island
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.
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 ...
15 Aug 2026
From Bridges to Bushfires - Pete Sherriff
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 ...
17 Jul 2026
Deal Island, Five Times Over - Spud and Kim Murphy
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...
27 Jun 2026
It's Twice as Important to Be Trusted - Tony Power & Will Broadbridge
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...
5 Jun 2026
It's a Community Place - John Cooper
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...
16 May 2026
There’s So Much Love Out There - Gwen Bailey
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 and Badger Corner, to working in some of the island’s earliest stores and building a life through farming, business and community service, Gwen reflects on a lifetime of stories woven through the Fur...
3 Apr 2026
Island Leap of Faith - Dawn Zelman
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 chose to stay. Dawn’s memories are sharply detailed, sometimes funny, sometimes confronting and always grounded in the real logistics of building a life on a remote Bass Strait island. We talk about...
13 Mar 2026
What Makes A Life Worth Building - Guy Ireland
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 decades spent building homes, mentoring apprentices and supporting local organisations, Guy reflects on a life shaped by hard work, connection and purpose. The conversation explores what it takes t...
15 Feb 2026
This is the place for me, this is home - Rachel Summers
In the first episode of Latitude 40 Season 2, Jacqui Cooper sits down with Flinders Island 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 Mayor, Rachel shares her journey, the challenges facing the island, and the power of community spirit. This episode explores volunteering, housing, ageing well, infrastructure projects and what...
5 Oct 2022
Smell the Island air - Ben Backhaus
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 isolation of the Island created by the separation of the land bridge to the Australian mainland. Ben sees the support of the Island community as instrumental in allowing his business to develop and b...
21 Sept 2022
Beyond the Purple Swamphen: Creating is living - Mel Telfer
In this espisode, Josie and Debbie talk with Mel Telfer: dental assistant, ambulance service volunteer, school teacher, truck driver, and a maker and the driving force behind The Purple Swamphen, the makers' co-op on Flinders Island. To outsiders Mel's life might look daunting but for her, the multiple roles she fills provide opportunities to feel purpose, structure and function in her life. Mel talks about her connection to the Island community, and the honour she feels&nbs...
15 Sept 2022
The islands get a hold on you, girl - Wendy Jubb-Stoney
In this final episode of Season 1, Debbie and Josie speak with Wendy Jubb-Stoney who owns and operates Flinders Island Retreat. Wendy talks about her childhood on Flinders Island and her deep attachment to the Furneaux islands. Returning to Flinders Island after years away, Wendy brings together her experience in food and hospitality, and her strong connection to the Island, to create a special guesthouse and cooking school at Cooma House. You can almost taste the flavours as W...
6 Sept 2022
The pull of the mutton bird - Lois Ireland
Lois Ireland shares her unique family heritage on Flinders Island as a member of the third generation of the Bowman family owning and running the general store. Lois reflects on the "pull of the mutton bird" that has drawn her and others back to live on the Island in Bass Strait. Lois describes the sort of visitor she’d like to see on the Island,"people who come with a genuine interest in finding out about how the place ticks … someone who's got an inquiring mind and is interest...
15 Aug 2022
Don't try to change this place, let it change you - Annie Revie
Former Mayor of Flinders Council, educator and always the Scot, Annie Revie talks about the dark history of Flinders Island and her decision to make the beautiful small island her home. Annie talks about what a thriving Flinders Island would look like: "we're kind of living on the edge of sustainability. We're almost close to the stage where we may not have enough people to take us forward in a sustainable way." "The people here have a strong sense of belonging. And what I would reall...
3 Aug 2022
The second best place to live! - Peter Rhodes
Self-proclaimed contrarian, Peter Rhodes, was born on Flinders Island and returned 40 years later to live. Peter claims it's only the second best place in the world to live - he's still looking for the 1st. Peter talks with Debbie and Josie about growing up on Flinders Island, going mutton birding with his father and his purchase of the figurehead of the Farsund, shipwrecked in Bass Strait. Peter's love of maritime history has led him to develop plans for a Furneaux Maritime History Centre to...
27 Jul 2022
The Islander Way regenerative tourism project - Dianne Dredge
Debbie and Josie speak with Dianne Dredge about the Islander Way regenerative tourism project on Flinders Is, Tasmania, Australia. Dianne explains the innovative, emergent, community-led approach to co-designing a visitor economy with the community that respects the community’s values, contributes to a resilient economy, and that takes responsibility for the impacts of tourism on the natural environment. "Let's do community consultation in a genuine way, and really experiment wi...
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