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

00:10:14 – New warship and Defence budget

00:37:27 – Two Ticks Town Talk – HMQS Gayundah, Queensland

01:08:50 – Homegrown biofuels

01:29:46 – This week in Australian history 17-23 April

01:42:16 – XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

Australia, Japan sign contracts to start $7 billion warship deal | Reuters

Defence spending to lift by $53 billion over the next decade as government warns of 'intensifying' risks - ABC News

Japan, Australia sign deal for first three Mogami frigate warships - ABC News

General purpose frigate | Royal Australian Navy

2026 National Defence Strategy and 2026 Integrated Investment Program | About | Defence

Biofuels could bolster Australia's fuel security but right now, we're exporting what we need to make them - ABC News

CEFC Refined Ambitions LCLF Opportunities Investment Insight - Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Ethanol fuel - Wikipedia

Colonial navies of Australia - Wikipedia

HMQS Gayundah - Wikipedia

HMQS Gayundah – The gunboats Gayundah, Paluma & Queensland's colonial navy.

HMAS Gayundah | Sea Power Centre

H.M.Q.S. Gayundah | Moreton Bay Our Story

HMQS "Gayundah" - Conduct Unbecoming - 1888 - Naval Historical Society of Australia

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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