Australia Talks - 6 Jun 2024: $Billions in Gas royalties unpaid and a new PNG NRL team

A weekly podcast with relaxed discussion of Australian topics, history, a featured town and a couple of trivia questions.

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DarkestKnight and Ardeet discuss:

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:06:11 - Australia is missing out on $13 billion in royalties on natural gas projects

00:30:39 - Two Ticks Town Talk is Mt Bryan East, South Australia

01:01:16 - Australian taxpayers to spend $600 million on a Papua New Guinea National Rugby League football team

01:16:44 - This week in Australian history May 31 - Jun 6

01:27:20 - XXXX bottle top quiz

'Australia Talks' is the official podcast of the r/australian subreddit.

Sources:

Australia missing out on $13 billion in royalty revenue from gas projects, report says

Australia’s great gas giveaway How Australia gives gas to multinational corporations for free

PNG expansion bid hits $170m roadblock as NRL clubs’ demands revealed

NRL and federal government closing in on $600m deal to launch Papua New Guinea rugby league team

Australian National Geographic - Australia's unsung hero by Jeff Maynard

Sir George Hubert Wilkins (1888–1958) by R. A. Swan

Wikipedia - Hubert Wilkins

Wikipedia - Mt Bryan East

Mount Bryan East and Sir Hubert Wilkins Homestead

Old Mt Bryan East School

Photos of Heysen Trail: Dare's Hill Road to Hallett

Monument Australia - Goyder's line

Wikipedia - Goyder's line

Visit Burra - Sir Hubert Wilkins' cottage

Heroic age of Antarctic Exploration

U.S Naval Institute - Oceans: 1931: The First Nautilus North Pole Expedition

Wilkins and Sherman Telepathy

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