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

00:11:05 – Calls for an Australia wide crackdown on real estate ads using artificial intelligence to hide faults and falsely lure in renters

00:32:19 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Acland, Queensland

00:51:49 – Age verification is coming to search engines in Australia

01:22:45 – This week in Australian history 4-10 July

01:38:48 - XXXX bottle top quiz

Sources:

Calls for Australia-wide crackdown on real estate ads that use AI to hide faults and lure in renters

Residential Tenancies Amendment

NSW real estate agents banned from photoshopping slums

Age verification is coming to search engines in Australia

Australians to face age checks from search engines

Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why

Schedule 3 – Internet Search

Wikipedia - Acland, Queensland

The coal mine's neighbour: Remembering Acland before its ghost town status

The last man in Acland: How mining turned a booming community into a ghost town

Aussietowns - Oakey QLD

Trove

New Acland Coal

Two Ticks Town Talk on Camden, New South Wales from the 22 May 2025 full episode of 'Australia Talks'

Wikipedia - Australian anniversaries

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