This is the Two Ticks Town Talk on Coolgardie, Western Australia from the 13 Nov 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'.

Sources:

Aussietowns - Coolgardie, WA

Wikipedia - Ernest Giles

Australian Dictionary of Biography - Ernest Giles

Internet Archive - The Roaring Nineties Katherine Susannah Prichard

Trove - Geographic travels in central Australia from 1872 to 1874

Trove - The journal of a forgotten expedition

Gutenberg - Australia twice traversed

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.

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DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:09:10 – Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme

00:33:59 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Coolgardie, Western Australia

00:55:14 – Queensland considers allowing dingoes to be kept as pets

01:19:19 – This week in Australian history 7-13 Nov

01:30:06 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme

Renters to tap into solar boom with government's 'free power' plan

Three hours of free power sounds great – but it could raise other costs and hamstring rooftop solar

Queensland considers allowing dingoes to be kept as pets

Dingo populations more closely related to ancient ancestors than modern dogs, DNA study suggests

Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure

‘Dingoes are not dogs’: Queensland could soon allow dingoes as pets under new biosecurity rules

Aussietowns - Coolgardie, WA

Wikipedia - Ernest Giles

Australian Dictionary of Biography - Ernest Giles

Internet Archive - The Roaring Nineties Katherine Susannah Prichard

Trove - Geographic travels in central Australia from 1872 to 1874

Trove - The journal of a forgotten expedition

Gutenberg - Australia twice traversed

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

#Australia #Australian

This is the Two Ticks Town Talk on Heard Islands and McDonald Island, Australian external territory from the 6 Nov 2025 full episode of Australia Talks.

Sources:

Wikipedia - Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Wikipedia - Big Ben (Heard Island)

ANARE research notes

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