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

00:07:35 – Albanese government fire sale of Defence properties

00:36:57 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Mount Coolum, Queensland

00:53:59 – Bunnings given green light to use facial recognition tech on customers to combat crime

01:23:12 – This week in Australian history 6-12 February

01:33:01 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

National Defence: Defence Strategic Review 2023

Government eyes off fire sale of historic defence properties around Australia

Albanese government to sell off $3bn worth of historic defence sites amid push to free up space for new homes

Bunnings decision may open door to facial recognition surveillance free-for-all

Bunnings Group Limited and Privacy Commissioner (Guidance and Appeals Panel) [2026] ARTA 130 (4 February 2026)

PRIVACY ACT 1988 - SECT 16A

Bunnings given green light to use facial recognition tech on customers to combat crime

'Worth the squeeze': Bunnings vows to minimise store crime after approval to use facial recognition technology

Wikipedia - Mount Coolum, Queensland

Trove - Mt Coolun Ore samples go to Melbourne

Trove - No uranium at Mount Coolum

Climb Mount Coolum

Wikipedia - Laccolith

Mount Coolum National Park

Coolum Advertiser

Australia's nuclear age & the unsettling truth about Mt Coolum

Australia's nuclear age & the unsettling truth about Mt Coolum

Australia Talks - 28 Nov 2024: Bunnings breaches privacy

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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