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
00:00:59 – Croc watch
00:13:26 – Coalition splits for second time since election after Nationals quit shadow cabinet
00:38:46 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Lightning Ridge, New South Wales
01:12:15 – Fighting crown of thorns starfish with ox bile and vinegar
01:29:50 – This week in Australian history 23-29 January
01:40:56 – XXXX bottle top quiz
Sources:
Queensland crocodile capture rates double as removal zones expand
Coalition splits for second time since election after Nationals quit shadow cabinet
From ultimatum to implosion: How the Coalition went its separate ways
Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor hold talks as shadow ministers rally behind Sussan Ley as leader of the Liberal Party
Divers use ox bile to battle new crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak threatening Great Barrier Reef
Worst crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak in decades emerging on Great Barrier Reef
Personal histories/collective biography: ideas for a biography of place suggested by two local exhibitions of personal migration histories
The history of the black soil plains
Lightning Ridge Opal company
Lightning Ridge Bore Baths
Car Door Tours Lightning Ridge
Digging up the rarest fossils of Lightning Ridge
Outback opal tours
Fossils in Lightning Ridge, NSW
Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries
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