Immigrants and Exiles
We are the sons of migrants. In the podcast, we talk about our experiences growing up in Australia in the second half of the Twentieth century. My name is Walter and my friend is Moreno. We met at university. After a long time not seeing each other, we started meeting again regularly for lunch every two weeks at The Beachcomber in St.Kilda. Occasionally we meet for breakfast when the cafe is quieter and we record our conversations. Write to us at waltermusolino@gmail.com if you would like to talk to us about your emigrant experiences. Technical production for these podcasts is by Laura Wild.
Episodes
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
15 min
In this episode, we discuss Australia’s shallow political culture and the complicity of migrants in promulgating terra nullius.
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
11 min
This time we discuss an issue that our parents struggled with all their lives, namely: Italy or Australia? Did they do the right thing in coming to Australia?
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
11 min
This time we talk about bullying, neighbourliness and illegal immigrants.
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
10 min
In this episode Walter and I talk some more about our parents, rats as big as cats, whether Walter was conceived on a ship, his fascination with broad beans and how both of us received a $1500 gift.
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
10 min
This time we talk about Australian girls in the 1960s, our experiences in Little Italy, in Carlton in the 1970s and, finally how a visit to Italy can hurt.
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
11 min
In this episode Walter and I talk about why you should open a chain of travel agencies, something magnificent that Mussolini did, picking grapes in Mildura and a dramatic overnight trip from the city to a tobacco farm in country Victoria.
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
13 min
In this episode, Walter and I talk about our families before they came to Australia and the early years in what Walter calls the penal colony and I, in the book I have written which will be published in 2025, refer to as the English colony.