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 AustraliaTalks@proton.me

DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:12:31 – Victorian bushfires

00:31:15 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Rainbow Beach, Queensland

00:52:55 – A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised

01:18:03 – This week in Australian history 9-15 January

01:30:53 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

One person dead as PM visits bushfire-ravaged towns with 300 structures destroyed and 350,000 hectares burned

Tens of thousands of livestock confirmed dead as Victorians return to bushfire-ravaged communities

Victoria's bushfires more than five times the size of Singapore

January 2026 Victorian bushfires

Vic Emergency

Services Australia - Victoria Bushfires, January 2026

A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised

Ben Quilty

Wikipedia - Rainbow beach, Queensland

History of Cooloola

Rainbow Beach Coloured Sands Legend

Welcome to Rainbow Beach and Gympie

Gympie regional memories

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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