Australia Talks - 25 Jul 2024: Crowdstrike outage & Excessive cigarette taxes fuel black market

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

Contact us at AustraliaTalksPodcast@proton.me

DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:12:55 - Crowdstrike outage and impact on Australia

00:34:33 - Two Ticks Town Talk is Stonehenge in Queensland

00:47:28 - Excessively high cigarette taxes are fueling a black market

01:12:11 - This week in Australian history 19-25 July

01:23:27 - XXXX bottle top quiz

 

'Australia Talks' is the official podcast of the r/Australian subreddit.

 

Sources:

Mass IT outage affects airlines, hospitals, media and banks

Why global tech meltdowns such as the CrowdStrike outage are the new normal

'Excessively high' cigarette taxes 'fuelling' black market, as retailers fear expansion of tobacco wars

Things to do in Stonehenge

Wikipedia - Stonehenge, Queensland

Wikipedia - Australian Anniversaries

Australian Geographic - On this day: Dick Smith’s around-the-world solo flight

 

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