The Italian Australian Podcast

Meet the Millimaci's, Joseph and Fiona, a married couple who are very well known within the Perth Italian community. We were lucky to have Joseph as one of our first guests in 2023 and for this chat his lovely wife Fiona joined us as well. We loved hearing the story of how they met and became friends bonding over mutual friends, a shared Italian heritage and a strong passion and love for langu...

Our good friend, the incredibly talented Etta D'Elia is back for a chat, we talked about so many things, food of course, the impact of Italian immigration on Australian culture and we were so excited to hear about her new show 'From Naples with love.' In case you missed our last chat with Etta- episode 23- Etta is a successful Jazz performer, having studied classical music in Italy prior to moving...

In our first episode of 2025 we bring you a chat with Francesca, the creator of OzItaly, a unique concept which offers Australians the opportunity to experience life in Italy like a local. We have all the details in our chat, OzItaly which began in 2018, is a cultural exchange program where Australians are hosted by an Italian family for a period of 1-3 months. Participants and host families choos...

This is our last episode for 2024 and we have thoroughly enjoyed the journey with our podcast this year. This episode was recorded on Boxing Day in person just us two so there was plenty of time for sibling banter! We chatted about our D’Aqui family Christmas, debated which was the best panettone we tried this season as well as looking ahead to our New Year’s Eve plans and what’s ahead for us in 2...

For this episode, coming to you on Christmas Eve, we chatted with our good friend and return guest, Joseph Sgambelluri, also known for his Instagram page, The Italian Aussie Cook (@theitalianaussiecook) • Instagram photos and videos Joseph and his wife have recently returned to Perth after living in Sydney for several years and we are so happy to have them living back in WA. They have also recentl...

We are excited to share this chat with well known and incredibly talented Perth based musician, Carmine Napoli. Part of the 'new wave' of Italian immigrants to Australia, Carmine left Salerno and made a new home in Perth. We had lots of laughs in our chat and enjoyed finding that we have many common interests. It was great to hear Carmine's story as a musician which started as a child, he grew up...

We always love it when our friends join us for an episode! In this episode we chat with long time friends of Lukas, Tiffany and Fabio Corrado. Tiffany is an Italian Australian like us and as a young woman she followed her dream to live and work in Italy. In Italy she soon found love and her future husband Fabio. Their love story has seen time spent living in both Italy and Australia, 5 children, F...

Our guest in this episode is Marianna Gatto, executive director of the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, an institution that she co-founded. This was a very interesting chat for us, Marianna told us many fascinating details about the history of Italian immigration across the United States. We enjoyed discussing the similarities and differences between the Italian history in the USA and Austr...

As long time fans of Maria Pasquale, we were both so excited to chat with her in this week's episode. Maria is born in Melbourne to Italian parents and grew up with a very strong connection to her Italian heritage. Her connection to Italy is so strong that she decided to move to Rome over 10 years ago where she is now based. She has established herself as an award winning international food and tr...

We teamed up with content creator Massimo Corrente in this week's episode. Massimo is a proud Italian Australian based in Melbourne and is doing an amazing job and keeping our culture proud and strong for the next generation. He achieves this is fun and light hearted ways such as being crowned the title by Sooshi Mango as 'The Fully Sickest of Them All'. Beyond the silliness and laughs Massimo is...

We always love talking about food so we were delighted to be joined by Chef Luca Guiotto in this week’s episode. Luca has spent his entire professional life as Chef, training in Italy where he was born in the Veneto region. His career has taken him all over Italy, next to Switzerland, then to Sydney for a number of years then to Adelaide where he is now based with his family. Luca told us of his e...

We were thrilled to get a chance to chat with Michael Cristiano ahead of the release of his new album 'Mai Finira' Michael was born and raised in Melbourne to Calabrese immigrants. His talents as a musician were obvious from 6 years of age and Michael describes his father as being influential and supportive on his journey as a musician. Michael has had a long and successful career in the music ind...

How exciting for us to be joined by a real life Opera star in this episode! Naomi Johns, of Sicilian heritage, is based in Perth and joined us for a chat ahead of her upcoming performance in 'Opera at the Quarry' 14th-16th November at the Quarry Amphitheatre- tickets available via the link: ⁠West Australian Opera - OPERA IN THE QUARRY (waopera.asn.au)⁠ Naomi told us about her connection with her h...

In this episode we were joined again by Station Manager of Radio Italiana 531, our friend Marco Petta. Marco recently had an amazing experience attending the Melbourne Italian Festa and we loved hearing his stories, especially about 'Turismo delle Radici' which is an organisation which helps to connect Italian Australians with their Italian heritage- check out their Instagram profile for more info...

We are joined again by our friend Mauro Daviddi, last time we heard his fascinating personal journey, this time he shared some of his vast knowledge of Italian history in a discussion about Central Italy. This is a part of Italy, historically and geographically that is less well known in popular culture compared to North and South Italy. Mauro's enthusiasm is palpable as he explains the history of...

We had a lot of laughs in this week’s episode with our guest, stand up comedian Anthony Locascio. Anthony has performed across Australia and internationally over the past couple of years, in our chat he told us about his current show Pappou which is a tribute to his Greek Grandfather. With Anthony being half Italian and half Greek, we ended up chatting about the different cultures and asked him th...

Bonus episode!!!!   The St Ali Italian Film Festival is currently happening all around Australia. Tonight is the opening night of the Festival in Perth so to celebrate we are bringing our listeners an extra episode. We were so excited to have Elysia Zeccola, Festival Director from Palace Cinemas as our guest. We loved getting the inside information about the Festival from Elysia and we heard how P...

In this week’s episode we heard an amazing story. A story from the time of World War 2 in Abruzzo, Italy, a story of a family helping out another family who had lost everything and how this generosity was never forgotten. These two families were destined to cross paths again, many years later in Melbourne, Australia. We were told this incredible story by our guest Emilio Ricciuti, an Italian Austr...

It was so fun to be joined by another brother and sister for this episode! Sandro Barzotto, president of the Laguna Veneto Bocce Club and his sister Diana who is also heavily involved in the club are our guests for this episode. We had the pleasure of meeting them earlier this year and quickly developed a friendship. In this episode we loved hearing Sandro and Diana's story and experience of b...

We have often said that everybody wants to be Italian, in this episode have some strong evidence to support this claim. Meet Tayla, 25 years old from Perth, WA, not of Italian heritage by blood however she has an enormous love and passion for all things Italian. From the Italian language- which she has studied and learned how to speak, travel to Italy- in our chat Tayla told us of her experience v...

This week's episode features one of our favourite return guests- Marco Petta! Station manager at RadioItaliana 531, based in Adelaide, Marco is a busy guy. In this episode we heard his experience visiting Perth earlier this year for the epic game AC Milan versus Roma at Optus Stadium where Marco led the fan club- Milan Club Australia in bringing some serious fan energy. We also chatted about h...

We had a great time chatting Wogism creator Nicholas. An Italian Australian just like us, Nicholas is based in Melbourne. To celebrate his passion for his culture Nicholas created his brand 'Wogism' which includes a podcast, blog and Instagram page. In our chat we talked about our passion for our culture, what it means to be a 'Wog' and asked are we still 'other?' WOGISM (@...

Introducing our new friend Mauro Daviddi as our guest in this week’s episode. Mauro immigrated to Australia at the age of 36, speaking no English when he arrived. His journey to be able to stay in Australia was full of ups and downs and hard work which ultimately paid off. In his new life here in Australia he has found joy, love and professional success in his field of public speaking and relation...

In this episode we caught up with our friend Mr Accordion Man- Frank Miranda. Frank is very well known in the Italian Australian community, especially in Perth. You may have seen him playing around the city, as we always say- Frank is everywhere! We were also very interested to hear Frank's personal story, born in Perth, Frank's family moved back to Italy for a period of time however ultim...

It's our one year anniversary!! We are thrilled to have reached this milestone and in this episode we cast our minds back to August 2023 when we started on this journey. What a journey it has been, we have had so much fun. We have laughed, we have argued, technology frustrations even had Josie in tears on one occasion! It has been an honour to have met so many amazing people, including our guests...