This is the Two Ticks Town Talk – Tennant Creek (part 2) Northern Territory segment from the 12 Feb 2026 full episode of 'Australia Talks' with your hosts DK and Ardeet.

Sources:

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)

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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 [email protected]

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

#Australia #Australian

This is the Two Ticks Town Talk on Mount Coolum, Queensland from the 12 Feb 2026 full episode of 'Australia Talks' with your hosts DK and Ardeet.

Sources:

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

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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 [email protected]

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

#Australia #Australian

This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on Humpty Doo, Northern Territory from the 5 Feb 2026 full episode of 'Australia Talks' with your hosts DK and Ardeet.

Sources:

Aussietowns - Humpty Doo, NT

The only way is up? The northern Australian food bowl fantasy

Aussietowns Facebook - Humpty Doo 

YouTube - The Darwin Stubby drinking competition (1988) 

Norman the beer drinking bull

Darwin Stubby wake held in Alice Springs as Carlton United Breweries pulls pin on production

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

#Australia #Australian

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 [email protected]

DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:00:00 – Introduction

00:07:08 – China’s ambassador warns Albanese reclaiming Port of Darwin will force Beijing to intervene

00:30:54 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Humpty Doo, Northern Territory

00:47:52 – Albanese government will not join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace amid diplomatic caution

01:22:11 – This week in Australian history 30-31 January and 1-5 February

01:35:00 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

China’s ambassador warns Albanese reclaiming Port of Darwin will force Beijing to intervene

National security review of Darwin Port to remain secret, but Defence releases 'talking points' 

Albanese government urged to use careful diplomacy to defuse Darwin Port row with China

Albanese government will not join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace amid diplomatic caution

Should Australia join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’? Here are 5 key points to consider

Labor stalls on Trump’s board of peace invitation as Trump envoy issues warning

Board of Peace logo

Boulder Two Ticks Town Talk (near Kalgoorlie)

Aussietowns - Humpty Doo, NT

The only way is up? The northern Australian food bowl fantasy

Aussietowns Facebook - Humpty Doo 

YouTube - The Darwin Stubby drinking competition (1988) 

Norman the beer drinking bull

Darwin Stubby wake held in Alice Springs as Carlton United Breweries pulls pin on production

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

#Australia #Australian

This is the Two Ticks Town Talk segment on Lightning Ridge, New South Wales from the 29 Jan 2026 full episode of 'Australia Talks' with your hosts DK and Ardeet.

Sources:

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

#Australia #Australian

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 [email protected]

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

#Australia #Australian

This is the Two Ticks Town Talk on Geeveston, Tasmania from the 22 Jan 2026 full episode of Australia Talks with your hosts DK and Ardeet.

Sources

Aussietowns - Geeveston, TAS

Tahune Adventures

Geeveston Gateway to the southern forests 

Geeveston 

Wikipedia - Geeveston

Grokipedia - Geeveston

#Australia #Australian

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 [email protected]

DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:07:45 – AI Blackface

00:53:25 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Geeveston, Tasmania

01:15:29 – Reconsidering our US alliance

01:42:38 – This week in Australian history 16-22 January

01:52:30 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

No Mob, No Country: the social media account profiting with an AI Indigenous avatar

‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand 

This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn’t exist – it’s AI Blakface

Australia’s confidence in Trump’s US has evaporated. What will it take for the alliance to rupture?

Can Australia still rely on the US after Trump’s latest moves?

Aussietowns - Geeveston, TAS

Tahune Adventures

Geeveston Gateway to the southern forests 

Geeveston 

Wikipedia - Geeveston

Grokipedia - Geeveston

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

#Australia #Australian