A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions with your hosts DK and Ardeet.

Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me

DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:00:00 – Introduction

00:10:21 – 1 in 3 adults are illiterate

00:32:25 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Sandy Island, Australia

00:49:10 – ISIS brides in Australia

01:11:23 – This week in Australian history 15-21 May

01:22:39 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

More than 1 in 3 Australian adults are functionally illiterate. How can we fix this?

Survey Participant Information - Survey of Adult Skills in Australia

Introduction to a multi-tiered system of supports | Australian Education Research Organisation

Read Write Now

The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation | ALNF

Adult Learning Australia Ltd - ala.asn.au

ACAL Australian Council for Adult Literacy | supporting literacy and numeracy education for adults

Welcome to the Reading Writing Hotline - Reading Writing Hotline

Three ISIS-linked women arrested after arriving back in Australia from Syria via Doha - ABC News

More ISIS-linked women and children set to return to Australia - ABC News

ISIS brides' arrest in Australia prompts anger in Syrian camp - ABC News

Hansard - House of Representatives 23/11/2022 Parliament of Australia

The disappearing Sandy Island - Scientist may have the answer.

Sandy Island, New Caledonia - Wikipedia

South Pacific Sandy Island 'proven not to exist' - BBC News

Sandy Island does exist - on a 1908 chart

This floating pumice raft in the Pacific could help save the Great Barrier Reef

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Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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