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

00:01:02 – Croc watch

00:18:20 – El Niño and its impact on Australia

00:41:27 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Mount Bartle Frere, Queensland

01:07:06 – AI data centre energy rules

01:33:45 – This week in Australian history 21-27 August

01:39:47 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

Climbing crocs survey territory from above - Australian Geographic

Climbing behaviour in extant crocodilians

Why the phrase ‘Super El Niño’ makes Australian climate scientists roll their eyes

Why Australia's weather is seeing a soaking while a record El Niño is forming - ABC News

El Niño–Southern Oscillation - Wikipedia

Southern hemisphere monitoring

Albanese to settle AI data centre energy rules, overriding defiant Queensland - ABC News

Energy prices are falling but the rise of data centres could push them back up - ABC News

Proposed Qld data centre to challenge renewable-only rules

Mount Bartle Frere - Wikipedia

Nature, culture and history | Bartle Frere trail, Wooroonooran National Park | Parks and forests | Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Taxon - Eucryphia wilkiei (Wilkie's leatherwood) | WildNet

Techmarscincus - Wikipedia

Queensland mountain tied to African history - The Junction

Camping | Bartle Frere trail, Wooroonooran National Park | Parks and forests | Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Bartle Frere trail | Parks and forests | Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Two Ticks Town Talk - Christmas Repeat 2025 Woomera , South Australia (from 24 Jul 2025 Australia Talks).mp3 | Australia Talks

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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