Australia Talks - 20 Mar 2025: Big Aussie vroom-vrooms & AUKUS Plan B

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

00:09:33 – ‘You have unmet needs’: the psychology behind Australia’s love affair with big cars

00:41:03 – Boydtown, New South Wales

01:02:22 – Instead of wasting more time on the flawed AUKUS submarine program we must go to plan B now

01:31:21 - This week in Australian history 14-20 Mar

01:41:24 - XXXX bottle top quiz

 

Sources:

 

‘You have unmet needs’: the psychology behind Australia’s love affair with big cars

Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier

Utes are useless: They may be popular but modern utes such as the Toyota HiLux, Isuzu D-Max, Mitsubishi Triton, Ford Ranger and BYD Shark 6 seem less practical than ever before

Greens leader Adam Bandt says Australia should walk away from AUKUS in wake of Trump's tariffs

Instead of wasting more time on the flawed Aukus submarine program, we must go to plan B now

Visiting nuclear sub commander says US will 'follow through' on AUKUS

Why the AUKUS deal is still a controversial and perplexing issue for most Australians

Benjamin (Ben) Boyd (1801–1851)

Wikipedia - Boydtown, New South Wales

Aussietowns - Boydtown

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

 

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