The Hobart Magazine Podcast: Recent Episodes
Stephanie Williams
The Hobart Magazine Podcast is an interview series hosted by Stephanie Williams with fascinating people connected to Hobart, Tasmania.
Robert Clifford is the founder of Incat, an international ferry building business right here in Hobart. Back in 1975, his business was ferrying people across the Derwent. Then the Tasman Bridge collapsed and everything changed. He scrambled to build more ferries and ended up running five by the time the bridge was fully repaired.
Robert has had a life of achievement around the water – winning the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, taking out the Hales Trophy, being awarded Tasmanian of the Year and even receiving an Order of Australia
But Robert is now looking to the future. After continuously expanding the size of the boats he can manufacture he is now concentrating his energy on energy. And how he can create the infrastructure to build electric ferries into the future.
He usually spends his time between Surrey in England and Hobart, but has been grounded here since Covid hit. Today we’re chatting from Robert’s office, overlooking the factory floor, so you’ll have to forgive a few noises in the background.
Stephanie Trethewey was a television journo working on national current affairs programs when she met Sam, a Tassie farmer and her now-husband. Steph is also the host of the Motherland Australia podcast, connecting women through stories of life on the land.
Check out Tasmanian Agricultural Company at www.tasagco.com.au and on Instagram @tasagco
Listen to the Motherland Australia podcast at www.motherlandaustralia.com.au or via all good podcast providers. You can follow on Instagram at @motherlandaustralia.
And finally, check out www.thehobartmagazine.com.au for more stories about people who live, work and connect with Hobart.
Peter Siddle has played cricket for Australia at the highest level, but when we was at the top, he realised that drinking wasn't conducive to a long career for him, and that becoming vegan might help his performance. Years later, he's not missing alcohol or animal products. In this chat he also shares how he copes without his brood of dogs, what he does for downtime in Hobart and what's on the cards for 2021.
This January, 2021, marked eight years since Mitch McPherson lost his little brother, Ty, to suicide. Through his grief, Mitch started SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY with one very small but very significant action, a bumper sticker.
For more information about SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY head to www.staychatty.com.au
For more information about The Hobart Magazine head to www.thehobartmagazine.com.au.
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