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 00:09:10 – Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme 00:33:59 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Coolgardie, Western Australia 00:55:14 – Queensland considers allowing dingoes to be kept as pets 01:19:19 – This week in Australian history 7-13 Nov 01:30:06 – XXXX bottle top quiz   Sources: Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme  Renters to tap into solar boom with government's 'free power' plan  Three hours of free power sounds great – but it could raise other costs and hamstring rooftop solar Queensland considers allowing dingoes to be kept as pets Dingo populations more closely related to ancient ancestors than modern dogs, DNA study suggests Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure ‘Dingoes are not dogs’: Queensland could soon allow dingoes as pets under new biosecurity rules Aussietowns - Coolgardie, WA Wikipedia - Ernest Giles Australian Dictionary of Biography - Ernest Giles Internet Archive - The Roaring Nineties Katherine Susannah Prichard Trove - Geographic travels in central Australia from 1872 to 1874 Trove - The journal of a forgotten expedition Gutenberg - Australia twice traversed Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries   #Australia #Australian