Australia Talks – 2 Apr 2026: Aussie fuel security & Pauline Hanson’s ABC plan

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The episode discusses fuel security in Australia, Pauline Hanson's plan for the ABC, and features a town talk about Leeton.

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 00:07:53 – Fuel security 00:35:37 – Two Ticks Town Talk – Leeton, New South Wales 00:55:22 – Pauline Hanson’s ABC plan 01:22:21 – This week in Australian history 27-31 March & 1-2 April 01:32:25 – XXXX bottle top quiz Sources: Labor to use new fuel security powers to underwrite extra shipments to Australia Securing Australia’s future fuel supply and critical minerals strategic reserve | Minister for Trade and Tourism Labor cuts fuel excise for three months, saving Australians 26c a litre on petrol and diesel Minimum stockholding obligation (MSO) for liquid fuels: statistics - DCCEEW Pauline Hanson’s plan to ‘defund’ ABC, introduce subscriptions ‘Defund it’: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson calls for ABC to be stripped of taxpayer funding and go subscriber-based ABC Transparency portal What would – and should – happen to the ABC under the next federal government? Wikipedia - Leeton, New South Wales Wikipedia - Riverina Wikipedia…

People in this episode

Hosts: DK, Ardeet

Topics covered

• fuel security
• Australian history
• Leeton
• Pauline Hanson
• trivia

Keywords

• fuel security
• Pauline Hanson
• Leeton
• Australian history
• trivia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Labor, ABC

Places: Australia, Leeton, New South Wales

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