Australia Talks - 24 Apr 2025: Australian neighbours’ defence decisions & Gambling industry pays out pollies

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

 

Contact us at AustraliaTalks@proton.me

 

DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

 

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:00:15 – Croc watch

00:06:09 – Catchup

00:11:30 – Australian neighbours’ defence decisions (Indonesia and Timor-Leste)

00:35:59 – Geraldton Part 2, Western Australia

00:57:22 – Australian PM, policticians took $147,000 of match tickets while weighing sports betting ban

01:14:11 – This week in Australian history 18-24 April

01:23:51 - XXXX bottle top quiz

 

Sources:

 

Australia PM, politicians took $147,000 of match tickets while weighing sports betting ban

Register of Members' Interests – 47th Parliament

Timor-Leste open to participating in Chinese military exercises

Canberra confirms Indonesia won't host Russian planes at air force base

Russia responds to claims it sought access to Indonesian air base

National museum Australia - Wreck of the Batavia

Australian National Maritime Museum - The Batavia shipwreck disaster

Wikipedia - Batavia (1628 ship)

Western Australian Museum - Batavia's history

Australian Geographic - The wallaby that drinks sea water

State Library of Western Australia - Francisco Pelsaert's journal

Geraldton Part 1, Western Australia

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

 

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