DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:08:15 - Optus outage update

00:13:20 - Labor's Stage 3 Tax Cut changes

00:29:38 - Two Ticks Town Talk is Moliagul, Victoria

00:51:32 - Cyber sanctions used for the first time

01:03:54 - This week in Australian History 24-31 Jan

01:18:21 - The XXXX bottle top quiz

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Labor makes bracket creep worse for middle Australia

Stage 3 tax cuts calculator: See how the changes will affect you

Sorry, but Stages 1 and 2 did not make Stage 3 fairer. Only changing Stage 3 did that.

Optus admits 10 times more people affected by triple-0 failures than previously disclosed.

Australia sanctions Russian ciitzen Aleksandr Ermakov over 2022 Medibank cyber-attack

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

Student fires 2 blanks at Prince Charles

Wikipedia - Moliagul

Aussie Towns

Wikipedia - Welcome Stranger

Royal Flying Doctor Service