Australia Talks - 27 Mar 2025: Big bushland protection & US trust is a bust

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

00:01:53– Croc watch

00:18:39 – Bushland the size of New Zealand to be protected under federal budget boost

00:35:35 – Windsor, New South Wales (Part 2)

00:59:22 – As trust in the US collapses, leaders in Australia and around the world are frantically recalibrating

01:25:09 - This week in Australian history 21-27 Mar

01:38:34 - XXXX bottle top quiz

 

Sources:

 

Grim prediction following rare sighting of 'vagrant' crocodile on southern Queensland beach

Is Australia’s crocodile population moving further down south?

Bushland the size of New Zealand to be protected under federal budget boost

Bush Heritage Australia

As trust in the US collapses, leaders in Australia and around the world are frantically recalibrating

The US-Australia alliance has created a unique kind of subservience. What if we don’t need the US to come to our rescue?

Instead of wasting more time on the European favourability of the USA falls following the return of Donald Trumpflawed Aukus submarine program, we must go to plan B now

Aussietowns - Windsor, NSW

Wikipedia - Windsor, New South Wales

Windsor Heritage Walk map

A handy guide to measuring the sky [with your body]

Hawkesbury Regional Museum - Starry night The world of John Tebbutt

Wikipedia - John Tebbutt

Australian Dictionary of Biography - John Tebbutt

Wikipedia - Parallax in astronomy

Two Ticks Town Talk - Windsor, New South Wales 16 May 2024

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

 

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