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.

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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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