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

00:10:01 – Australian firearms laws developments

00:38:53 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Tennant Creek (part 2), Northern Territory

00:53:48 – Fortescue’s electric locomotives

01:17:37 – This week in Australian history 13-19 February

01:30:28 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

Shooters Union Australia

Gun licence applications explode after Bondi terror attack crackdown

Firearms Collection

New hope for national gun register 30 years after it was first proposed

Gun licence applications in NSW up 7000 per cent in some categories

Fortescue launches its first electric locomotives – with batteries the size of more than 200 Tesla EVs

Fortescue trials battery-electric locomotives in Pilbara as decarbonisation race tightens

In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests. What we hear matters more than ever

Warramunga Seismic and Infrasound Research Station

Wikipedia - Tennant Creek

Wikipedia - Warumungu

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

The International Monitoring System (IMS) map

Aussietowns - Tennant Creek, NT

Two Ticks Town Talk – Tennant Creek, NT (from 4 Jul 2023 Australia Talks)

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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