169: Frauke Bolten-Boshammer's incredible journey from widow to diamond dealer

Motherland Australia - A podcast by Stephanie Trethewey - Sundays

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Frauke Bolten-Boshammer is from Germany and arrived in Australia in 1981 with her husband Friedrich and their children. They called Kununurra in the Kimberley home, and while Frauke felt the pang of isolation, she had no idea of the heartache that lay ahead. Three years later, she lost her husband to suicide and found herself living on 1000 hectares of remote farmland with four children to raise. She suffered another cruel blow years later, when her son Peter also took his own life. Fra...