Australia Talks
DarkestKnight and Ardeet have a weekly relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a trivia question.
Episodes
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:24 – Croc watch: Dickhead of the month
00:20:11 – Independent MP to push a lowering of Australian’s voting age after UK decision
00:46:58 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Woomera, South Australia
01:08:20 – South ...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on Burra, South Australia from the 17 Jul 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
How Essington Lewis pulled off an industrial miracle
Wikipedia - Breaker Morant (film)
Wikipedia - Burra, South Australia
...A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:07:57 – Victoria's draconian new anti-protest laws will have a chilling effect on free speech -- and won't keep anyone safe
00:33:40 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Burra, South Australia
01:01:13 –From ICE to Coles...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on Acland, Queensland from the 10 Jul 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Wikipedia - Acland, Queensland
The coal mine's neighbour: Remembering Acland before its ghost town status
The last man in Acland: How mining turned a booming community into a ghost town
Two Ticks Town Talk on Camden, New South Wales from the 22 May 2025 full...
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:11:05 – Calls for an Australia wide crackdown on real estate ads using artificial intelligence to hide faults and falsely lure in renters
00:32:19 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Acland, Queensland
00:51:49 – Age ve...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on Marrabel, South Australia from the 3 Jul 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Wikipedia - Marrabel, South Australia
South Australia, Marrabel Rodeo Bull Ride
Trove - 1946 newspaper article
#Australia #Australian
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:12:38 – Australia deepens collaboration with NATO and takes further action to hold Russia to account. Also to deploy 100 soldiers to help keep Ukrain in its bloody ware against Russian aggression
00:30:02 – ...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk ACT Part 2, Australian Capital Territory segment from the 26 Jun 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Wikipedia - Jervis Bay territory
Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915 (Cth)
Museum of Australian Democracy
Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Two Ticks Town Talk on Camden, New South Wales from the 22 May ...
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:48 – Croc Watch
00:20:34 – Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on the menu within weeks
00:51:08 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Australian Capital Territory Part 2, ACT
01:19:51 – Ending Victoria’s timber i...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on Portsea, Victoria from the 19 Jun 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Mystery of missing PM finally solved
How Australia’s PM went swimming 50 years ago and vanished forever
From the Archives, 1967: Harold Holt vanishes during Portsea swim
Inside the disappearance of Harold Holt — one of the largest search operations in Australian history
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:08:59 – Northern Territory to trial legal pepper spray for self-defence
00:25:40 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Portsea, Victoria
00:48:44 – Would Gen Z starve if they were left alone?
01:07:31 – This week in Austr...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on the ACT, Australian Capital Territory from the 12 Jun 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Wikipedia - Pine Island Reserve
Canberra & District Historical Society
Wikipedia - History of Canberra
Wikipedia - Murrumbidgee river
Wikipedia - Echium plantagineum in Australia
#Australia #Australian
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:06:23 – Australian container return schemes are a booming good news story
00:22:37 – Two Ticks Town Talk - ACT, Australian Capital Territory
00:37:52 – Sleep is becoming a major health issue for Australians ...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on Canowindra, New South Wales from the 5 Jun 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
State Library NSW - Ben Hall, Australian Bushranger
Australian Dictionary of Biography - Ben Hall (1837-1865)
Wikipedia - Ben Hall (bushranger)
#Australia #Australian
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:09:08 – Chinese ambassador blasts Darwin Port lease plan as ‘ethically questionable’
00:33:54 – Two Ticks Town Talk - Canowindra, New South Wales
00:50:26 – Labor’s second term defence priorities and could t...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk on Ball's Pyramid, New South Wales from 29 May 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Diving Ball’s Pyramid … is it all it’s cracked up to be?
Lord Howe Island - Points of interest
Lord How Island - Return of the tree lobster
Giant stick insect rediscovered
Dryococelus australis (Lord Howe Island Phasmid)
#Australia #Australian
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:53 – Croc watch
00:11:53 – There’s no country more important to Australia than Indonesia. Trouble is, the feeling isn’t mutual
00:34:16 – Ball’s Pyramid, New South Wales
00:53:22 – Fewer teens are drinkin...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk on Camden, New South Wales from the 22 May 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Wikipedia - Camden, New South Wales
Australian Dictionary of Biography - John Macarthur
#Australia #Australian
A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.
Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me
DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:08:52 – The Albanese government will accelerate the development of loitering munitions
00:29:40 – Camden, New South Wales
00:51:57 – Australians enticed by premium rivals as McDonald’s records fall in sales
...
This is the Two Ticks Town Talk on South West Tasmania, Tasmania from the 15 May 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.
Sources:
Botanists' bid to save King's Holly, 'world's oldest living plant', from extinction
#Australia #Australian
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