Podcasts about Lake Eyre

Here’s the big invertebrate episode I’ve been promising people! Thanks to Sam, warbrlwatchr, Jayson, Richard from NC, Holly, Kabir, Stewie, Thaddeus, and Trech for their suggestions this week! Further reading: Does the Spiral Siphonophore Reign as the Longest Animal in the World? The common nawab butterfly: The common nawab caterpillar: A velvet worm: A giant siphonophore [photo by Catriona Munro, Stefan Siebert, Felipe Zapata, Mark Howison, Alejandro Damian-Serrano, Samuel H. Church, Freya E.Goetz, Philip R. Pugh, Steven H.D.Haddock, Casey W.Dunn – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790318300460#f0030]: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. Hello to 2026! This is usually where I announce that I'm going to do a series of themed episodes throughout the coming year, and usually I forget all about it after a few months. This year I have a different announcement. After our nine-year anniversary next month, which is episode 470, instead of new episodes I'm going to be switching to old Patreon episodes. I closed the Patreon permanently at the end of December but all the best episodes will now run in the main feed until our ten-year anniversary in February 2027. That's episode 523, when we'll have a big new episode that will also be the very last one ever. I thought this was the best way to close out the podcast instead of just stopping one day. The only problem is the big list of suggestions. During January I'm going to cover as many suggestions as I possibly can. This week's episode is about invertebrates, and in the next few weeks we'll have an episode about mammals, one about reptiles and birds, and one about amphibians and fish, although I don't know what order they'll be in yet. Episode 470 will be about animals discovered in 2025, along with some corrections and updates. I hope no one is sad about the podcast ending! You have a whole year to get used to it, and the old episodes will remain forever on the website so you can listen whenever you like. All that out of the way, let's start 2026 right with a whole lot of invertebrates! Thanks to Sam, warbrlwatchr, Jayson, Richard from NC, Holly, Kabir, Stewie, Thaddeus, and Trech for their suggestions this week! Let's start with Trech's suggestion, a humble ant called the weaver ant. It's also called the green ant even though not all species are green, because a species found in Australia is partially green. Most species are red, brown, or yellowish, and they're found in parts of northern and western Australia, southern Asia, and on most islands in between the two areas, and in parts of central Africa. The weaver ant lives in trees in tropical areas, and gets the name weaver ant because of the way it makes its nest. The nests are made out of leaves, but the leaves are still growing on the tree. Worker ants grab the edge of a leaf in their mandibles, then pull the leaf toward another leaf or sometimes double the leaf over. Sometimes ants have to make a chain to reach another leaf, with each ant grabbing the next ant around the middle until the ant at the end of the chain can grab the edge of a leaf. While the leaf is being pulled into place alongside the edge of another leaf, or the opposite edge of the same leaf, other workers bring larvae from an established part of the nest. The larvae secrete silk to make cocoons, but a worker ant holds a larva at the edge of the leaf, taps its little head, and the larva secretes silk that the workers use to bind the leaf edges together. A single colony has multiple nests, often in more than one tree, and are constantly constructing new ones as the old leaves are damaged by weather or just die off naturally. The weaver ant mainly eats insects, which is good for the trees because many of the insects the ants kill and eat are ones that can damage trees. This is one reason why farmers in some places like seeing weaver ants, especially fruit farmers, and sometimes farmers will even buy a weaver ant colony starter pack to place in their trees deliberately. The farmer doesn't have to use pesticides, and the weaver ants even cause some fruit- and leaf-eating animals to stay away, because the ants can give a painful bite. People in many areas also eat the weaver ant larvae, which is considered a delicacy. Our next suggestion is by Holly, the zombie snail. I actually covered this in a Patreon episode, but I didn't schedule it for next year because I thought I'd used the information already in a regular episode, but now I can't find it. So let's talk about it now! In August of 2019, hikers in Taiwan came across a snail that looked like it was on its way to a rave. It had what looked like flashing neon decorations in its head, pulsing in green and orange. Strobing colors are just not something you'd expect to find on an animal, or if you did it would be a deep-sea animal. The situation is not good for the snail, let me tell you. It's due to a parasitic flatworm called the green-banded broodsac. The flatworm infects birds, but to get into the bird, first it has to get into a snail. To get into a snail, it has to be in a bird, though, because it lives in the cloaca of a bird and attaches its eggs to the bird's droppings. When a snail eats a yummy bird dropping, it also eats the eggs. The eggs hatch in the snail's body instead of being digested, where eventually they develop into sporocysts. That's a branched structure that spreads throughout the snail's body, including into its head and eyestalks. The sporocyst branches that are in the snail's eyestalks further develop into broodsacs, which look like little worms or caterpillars banded with green and orange or green and yellow, sometimes with black or brown bands too—it depends on the species. About the time the broodsacs are ready for the next stage of life, the parasite takes control of the snail's brain. The snail goes out in daylight and sits somewhere conspicuous, and its body, or sometimes just its head or eyestalks, becomes semi-translucent so that the broodsacs show through it. Then the broodsacs swell up and start to pulse. The colors and movement resemble a caterpillar enough that it attracts birds that eat caterpillars. A bird will fly up, grab what it thinks is a caterpillar, and eat it up. The broodsac develops into a mature flatworm in the bird's digestive system, and sticks itself to the walls of the cloaca with two suckers, and the whole process starts again. The snail gets the worst part of this bargain, naturally, but it doesn't necessarily die. It can survive for a year or more even with the parasite living in it, and it can still use its eyes. When it's bird time, the bird isn't interested in the snail itself. It just wants what it thinks is a caterpillar, and a lot of times it just snips the broodsac out of the snail's eyestalk without doing a lot of damage to the snail. If a bird doesn't show up right away, sometimes the broodsac will burst out of the eyestalk anyway. It can survive for up to an hour outside the snail and continues to pulsate, so it will sometimes still get eaten by a bird. Okay, that was disgusting. Let's move on quickly to the tiger beetle, suggested by both Sam and warblrwatchr. There are thousands of tiger beetle species known and they live all over the world, except for Antarctica. Because there are so many different species in so many different habitats, they don't all look the same, but many common species are reddish-orange with black stripes, which is where the name tiger beetle comes from. Others are plain black or gray, shiny blue, dark or pale brown, spotted, mottled, iridescent, bumpy, plain, bulky, or lightly built. They vary a lot, but one thing they all share are long legs. That's because the tiger beetle is famous for its running speed. Not all species can fly, but even in the ones that can, its wings are small and it can't fly far. But it can run so fast that scientists have discovered that its simple eyes can't gather enough photons for the brain to process an image of its surroundings while it runs. That's why the beetle will run extremely fast, then stop for a moment before running again. Its brain needs a moment to catch up. The tiger beetle eats insects and other small animals, which it runs after to catch. The fastest species known lives around the shores of Lake Eyre in South Australia, Rivacindela hudsoni. It grows around 20 mm long, and can run as much as 5.6 mph, or 9 km/hour, not that it's going to be running for an entire hour at a time. Still, that's incredibly fast for something with little teeny legs. Another insect that is really fast is called the common nawab, suggested by Jayson. It's a butterfly that lives in tropical forests and rainforests in South Asia and many islands. Its wings are mainly brown or black with a big yellow or greenish spot in the middle and some little white spots along the edges, and the hind wings have two little tails that look like spikes. It's really pretty and has a wingspan more than three inches across, or about 8.5 cm. The common nawab spends most of its time in the forest canopy, flying quickly from flower to flower. Females will travel long distances, but when a female is ready to lay her eggs, she returns to where she hatched. The male stays in his territory, and will chase away other common nawab males if they approach. The common nawab caterpillar is green with pale yellow stripes, and it has four horn-like projections on its head, which is why it's called the dragon-headed caterpillar. It's really awesome-looking and I put it on the list to cover years ago, then forgot it until Jayson recommended it. But it turns out there's not a lot known about the common nawab, so there's not a lot to say about it. Next, Richard from NC suggested the velvet worm. It's not a worm and it's not made of velvet, although its body is soft and velvety to the touch. It's long and fairly thin, sort of like a caterpillar in shape but with lots of stubby little legs. There are hundreds of species known in two families. Most species of velvet worm are found in South America and Australia. Some species of velvet worm can grow up to 8 and a half inches long, or 22 cm, but most are much smaller. The smallest lives in New Zealand on the South Island, and only grows up to 10 mm long, with 13 pairs of legs. The largest lives in Costa Rica in Central America and was only discovered in 2010. It has up to 41 pairs of legs, although males only have 34 pairs. Various species of velvet worm are different colors, although a lot of them are reddish, brown, or orangey-brown. Most species have simple eyes, although some have no eyes at all. Its legs are stubby, hollow, and very simple, with a pair of tiny chitin claws at the ends. The claws are retractable and help it climb around. It likes humid, dark places like mossy rocks, leaf litter, fallen logs, caves, and similar habitats. Some species are solitary but others live in social groups of closely related individuals. The velvet worm is an ambush predator, and it hunts in a really weird way. It's nocturnal and its eyes are not only very simple, but the velvet worm can't even see ahead of it because its eyes are behind a pair of fleshy antennae that it uses to feel its way delicately forward. It walks so softly on its little legs that the small insects and other invertebrates that it preys on often don't even notice it. When it comes across an animal, it uses its antennae to very carefully touch it and decide whether it's worth attacking. When it decides to attack, it squirts slime that acts like glue. It has a gland on either side of its head that squirts slime quite accurately. Once the prey is immobilized, the velvet worm may give smaller squirts of slime at dangerous parts, like the fangs of spiders. Then it punctures the body of its prey with its jaws and injects saliva, which kills the animal and starts to liquefy its insides. While the velvet worm is waiting for this to happen, it eats up its slime to reuse it, then sucks the liquid out of the prey. This can take a long time depending on the size of the animal—more than an hour. A huge number of invertebrates, including all insects and crustaceans, are arthropods, and velvet worms look like they should belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But arthropods always have jointed legs. Velvet worm legs don't have joints. Velvet worms aren't arthropods, although they're closely related. A modern-day velvet worm looks surprisingly like an animal that lived half a billion years ago, Antennacanthopodia, although it lived in the ocean and all velvet worms live on land. Scientists think that the velvet worm's closest living relative is a very small invertebrate called the tardigrade, or water bear, which is Stewie's suggestion. The water bear isn't a bear but a tiny eight-legged animal that barely ever grows larger than 1.5 millimeters. Some species are microscopic. There are about 1,300 known species of water bear and they all look pretty similar, like a plump eight-legged stuffed animal with a tubular mouth that looks a little like a pig's snout. It uses six of its fat little legs for walking and the hind two to cling to the moss and other plant material where it lives. Each leg has four to eight long hooked claws. Like the velvet worm, the tardigrade's legs don't have joints. They can bend wherever they want. Tardigrades have the reputation of being extremophiles, able to withstand incredible heat, cold, radiation, space, and anything else scientists can think of. In reality, it's just a little guy that mostly lives in moss and eats tiny animals or plant material. It is tough, and some species can indeed withstand extreme heat, cold, and so forth, but only for short amounts of time. The tardigrade's success is mainly due to its ability to suspend its metabolism, during which time the water in its body is replaced with a type of protein that protects its cells from damage. It retracts its legs and rearranges its internal organs so it can curl up into a teeny barrel shape, at which point it's called a tun. It needs a moist environment, and if its environment dries out too much, the water bear will automatically go into this suspended state, called cryptobiosis. When conditions improve, the tardigrade returns to normal. Another animal has a similar ability, and it's a suggestion by Thaddeus, the immortal jellyfish. It's barely more than 4 mm across as an adult, and lives throughout much of the world's oceans, especially where it's warm. It eats tiny food, including plankton and fish eggs, which it grabs with its tiny tentacles. Small as it is, the immortal jellyfish has stinging cells in its tentacles. It's mostly transparent, although its stomach is red and an adult jelly has up to 90 white tentacles. The immortal jellyfish starts life as a larva called a planula, which can swim, but when it finds a place it likes, it sticks itself to a rock or shell, or just onto the sea floor. There it develops into a polyp colony, and this colony buds new polyps that are clones of the original. These polyps swim away and grow into jellyfish, which spawn and develop eggs, and those eggs hatch into new planulae. Polyps can live for years, while adult jellies, called medusae, usually only live a few months. But if an adult immortal jellyfish is injured, starving, sick, or otherwise under stress, it can transform back into a polyp. It forms a new polyp colony and buds clones of itself that then grow into adult jellies. It's the only organism known that can revert to an earlier stage of life after reaching sexual maturity–but only an individual at the adult stage, called the medusa stage, can revert to an earlier stage of development, and an individual can only achieve the medusa stage once after it buds from the polyp colony. If it reverts to the polyp stage, it will remain a polyp until it eventually dies, so it's not really immortal but it's still very cool. All the animals we've talked about today have been quite small. Let's finish with a suggestion from Kabir, a deep-sea animal that's really big! It's the giant siphonophore, Praya dubia, which lives in cold ocean water around many parts of the world. It's one of the longest creatures known to exist, but it's not a single animal. Each siphonophore is a colony of tiny animals called zooids, all clones although they perform different functions so the whole colony can thrive. Some zooids help the colony swim, while others have tiny tentacles that grab prey, and others digest the food and disperse the nutrients to the zooids around it. Some siphonophores are small but some can grow quite large. The Portuguese man o' war, which looks like a floating jellyfish, is actually a type of siphonophore. Its stinging tentacles can be 100 feet long, or 30 m. Other siphonophores are long, transparent, gelatinous strings that float through the depths of the sea, and that's the kind the giant siphonophore is. The giant siphonophore can definitely grow longer than 160 feet, or 50 meters, and may grow considerably longer. Siphonophores are delicate, and if they get washed too close to shore or the surface, waves and currents can tear them into pieces. Other than that, and maybe the occasional whale or big fish swimming right through them and breaking them up, there's really no reason why a siphonophore can't just keep on growing and growing and growing… You can find Strange Animals Podcast at strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net. That's blueberry without any E's. If you have questions, comments, corrections, or suggestions, email us at strangeanimalspodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!

Jeremy Cordeaux returns to The Court of Public Opinion Garage Edition with a sharp look at the issues shaping Australia. From the Papua New Guinea “Puk Puk” pact and the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel, to the rise of “scrimpflation”, government waste, and the Bedford Industries scandal — Jeremy calls out hypocrisy and mismanagement at every level. He questions how your money is being spent, who’s really running the country, and whether common sense has disappeared from politics altogether. Australia’s new “Puk Puk” defence pact with Papua New Guinea Remembering Dame Jane Goodall and South Australian leaders Anthony Toop and Michael Brock The one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel “Scrimpflation” – less quality for the same money One in four shoppers think it’s okay to steal from supermarkets Rampant government waste: hospital patients in luxury hotels Failure to ban online gambling ads Liberal Party leadership, Andrew Hastie, and political drift Lake Eyre regatta banned by Aboriginal groups Bedford Industries scandal: taxpayer money and poor management Return of ISIS brides and government accountability Upcoming guests: Professor Ian Plimer, John Overton, SA Aviation Museum Historical notes: carbon paper, Putin’s birthday, Fox News launch, Clive James, Pillow Talk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 73 of The Reride Podcast features the boys diving into how professional rugby league legend Billy Slater responded to criticism in the NRL, including the thoughtful apology he delivered afterward. This episode also features two incredible poems that are a must listen. The conversation then shifts to the fascinating differences between male and female brain function, touching on both scientific insights and some classic, hands on techniques like the old-school method of locating underground water using two pieces of wire. From water-finding tricks to exploring Australia's largest natural saltwater lake, Lake Eyre, the episode covers where the lake's water comes from and just how salty it really is. This is one episode you don't want to miss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Commadore Bob Backway of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club breaks down the restrictions that have been put in place for Lake Eyre. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Subscribe on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ch 7 US correspondent Mylee Hogan on the P Diddy trial, 7News Blake Johnson on QANTAS international flights out of Adelaide, Weekly Spin with Matt Abraham, Commadore of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club Bob Backway on the restrictions place on the flooding Lake Eyre, Jack Lukosius on his timeline to return & the current morale of Willie Rioli, Fitzy's footy tips & your calls. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Subscribe on YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jade Robran on the historic flooding that is filling Lake Eyre, 'Around the Courts' with Sean Fewster, Joe Aurelio on Pope Leo XIV eating at his shop in Chicago, Breaking@ 8 with Abbeyfield House tenant & Crows Motivation Office Jake Milbank, Premier Malinauskas & Marion Mayor Kris Hanna, Kochie on the AFL's handling of the Rioli suspension, Tom Park on getting to film for David Attenborough's new documentary 'Ocean' & your calls. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Subscribe on YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A pilot in central Australia says he's never seen anything like this week's massive flooding at Lake Eyre. 

Victor Vella, xandar u kittieb Malti Awstraljan jitkellem dwar is-sbuħija ta' tnejn mill-għadajjar uniċi fl-Awstralja Lake Tyrrell u Lake Eyre.

Alligator Energy Ltd (ASX: AGE) CEO Greg Hall sits down with Proactive's Tylah Tully to discuss a significant new uranium discovery made in its inaugural drilling program at the Big Lake Uranium Project in South Australia. The drilling intersected substantial anomalous uranium mineralisation within palaeochannel sand units of the Namba Formation. This discovery validates the presence of significant uranium within the Lake Eyre basin sediments above the Cooper Basin, with the potential for In-Situ Recovery (ISR) mining. Four aircore drill holes encountered mineralised palaeochannel sands at depths between 90 and 130 metres, with indicative grades up to 50 times background levels. These initial results are comparable to the economic cut-off grades used at Alligator's Samphire ISR Uranium Project. Further drilling is ongoing with samples to be sent to Adelaide for detailed analysis. The discovery is noteworthy as the first greenfields uranium discovery in South Australia since 2007. Alligator plans to proceed with further exploration and approvals after full data analysis. The company acknowledges the foundational work by previous geologists and expresses appreciation to stakeholders who facilitated access for the drilling program. #ProactiveInvestors #AlligatorEnergy #ASX #UraniumDiscovery, #BigLakeProject, #SouthAustralia, #MiningNews, #UraniumMining, #ISRMining, #NambaFormation, #LakeEyreBasin, #CooperBasin, #AirCoreDrilling, #GreenfieldsDiscovery, #ExplorationUpdate, #Mineralisation, #SamphireProject, #UraniumGrades, #GregHall, #AustralianMining, #ResourceExploration, #EnergySector #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

Luke and Dr Karl learn from Dr Ben Pitcher, Behavioural Biologist at Taronga Conservation Society Australia, about why birds from across the world migrate to Lake Eyre when the water rises.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We camp up at William Creek Hotel and enjoy a great meal at this quintessential Aussie pub, before fuelling up with the most expensive diesel on this trip to date.  We take a drive on the Public Access Route to Halligan Bay Lake Eyre, through a landscape that is completely out of this world, and Jasper challenges us to a game of cricket Lake Eyre style! Plus we befriend a solo cyclist, riding from Adelaide to Japan, and camp up at the best Outback free camp we've ever stayed.  Get your hands on our South Australia Touring Guide eBook and start planning your road trip today! - https://shopthefeelgoodfamily.com/products/south-australia-ebook-the-ultimate-touring-guide Watch our brand new TV series Feel Good RoadTrips on Channel 7TWO at 3pm Sunday's, nationwide. Or catch up on episodes on the 7Plus streaming platform - https://thefeelgoodfamily.com/feelgood-roadtrips-channel-seven-tv-series/ This episode is proudly brought to you by our friends at Nakie – the world's first 100% recycled hammock! Relax wherever you go with the awesome range of Nakie products. Take advantage of our 15% Discount - https://www.nakie.co/?ref=feelgood (ENTER FEELGOOD DISCOUNT CODE). Listen to our Feel Good Road Trip Spotify playlist here -https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47S2LkmpBxztMEH8sw6Frt?fbclid=IwAR0Xk2BwpoAhbk5Xvl1cwadO2FzPVl2PHboIWNDPmtzW_F-1-4fKfw4AalU Be sure to Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and join us for all of the road trip adventures! Check out the footage from our latest episodes on our Family Travel Australia YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/@TheFeelGoodFamily Subscribe to Jasperoo - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCceGx3esRSQBYZfWvf4KVtw Our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/thefeelgoodfamily has a new destination video every Sunday night at 6.30pm (AEST). We would love to connect with you on Facebook, Instagram and our website www.thefeelgoodfamily.com  Our Family Travel Australia Podcast is now LIVE and available on all podcast platforms, with a new episode aired every Friday night 8:30pm [AEST]. 

We pick up our Outback road trip in Marree, a small town at the start of the 620km dirt Oodnadatta Track. Katie gets completely out of her comfort zone with a spectacular flight over Lake Eyre, Australia's largest salt lake, and we encounter road closures due to recent flooding rains. You'll also get to see Paul and Jasper visit a Yacht Club in the middle of the Outback and we lose another drone over Lake Eyre!  Get your hands on our South Australia Touring Guide eBook and start planning your road trip today! - https://shopthefeelgoodfamily.com/products/south-australia-ebook-the-ultimate-touring-guide Watch our brand new TV series Feel Good RoadTrips on Channel 7TWO at 3pm Sunday's, nationwide. Or catch up on episodes on the 7Plus streaming platform - https://thefeelgoodfamily.com/feelgood-roadtrips-channel-seven-tv-series/ This episode is proudly brought to you by our mates at Stratus Outdoors, Protect The Adventure.  Keeping plastic bottles out of landfill by turning them into quality camp gear. Take advantage of our 15% Discount - https://www.stratusoutdoors.com.au  (ENTER FEELGOOD DISCOUNT CODE) Listen to our Feel Good Road Trip Spotify playlist here -https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47S2LkmpBxztMEH8sw6Frt?fbclid=IwAR0Xk2BwpoAhbk5Xvl1cwadO2FzPVl2PHboIWNDPmtzW_F-1-4fKfw4AalU Be sure to Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and join us for all of the road trip adventures! Check out the footage from our latest episodes on our Family Travel Australia YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/@TheFeelGoodFamily Subscribe to Jasperoo - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCceGx3esRSQBYZfWvf4KVtw Our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/thefeelgoodfamily has a new destination video every Sunday night at 6.30pm (AEST). We would love to connect with you on Facebook, Instagram and our website www.thefeelgoodfamily.com  Our Family Travel Australia Podcast is now LIVE and available on all podcast platforms, with a new episode aired every Friday night 8:30pm [AEST].

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One of Australia's biggest green energy companies goes bust after being lauded by the PM, the South Australian government proposes a ban on non-Indigenous people accessing Lake Eyre. Plus, the eSafety Commissioner wages war on Elon Musk. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been a year since the Australian government unveiled its AUKUS military pact with the US and the UK that will see it acquire nuclear-powered submarines, forecast to cost up to AU$368 billion. It's a deal that poses serious threat to regional and global health and security, runs counter to our commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and brings us closer to nuclear weapons capability.  The 14th March saw the start of a week of actions against AUKUS all across the continent and the Radioactive Show travelled to Mt. Keira on Wadi Wadi Lands in Wollongong to the meeting of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) a grassroots alliance that has brought together Aboriginal people and civil society groups concerned about existing or proposed nuclear developments in 'so called' Australia Since 1997.  This was the first East Coast meeting of ANFA and was initiated due to the potential for stationing of nuclear submarines at Port Kembla.Today we hear from Greens Senator David Shoebridge addressing the meeting on some of the serious threats from AUKUS.  Currently the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee is conducting an Inquiry into Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2023 [Provisions] and Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023 that will report on April 26.  We also share recordings from the launch of the Peace Walk Against AUKUS that had a send off at the ANFA meeting on Sunday 17 March and set off from Port Kembla on Monday 18 March.  Local elder Uncle Peter Button held a smoking ceremony to begin the walk.  The walk will continue on to arrive in Canberra on 17 April and you can follow along on the social media (Beyond Uranium Canberra or via the website www.beyonduraniumcanberra.net.Finally we'll hear long time anti-nuclear activist and former Radioactive Show presenter Bilbo speaking about the Keepers of Lake Eyre anniversary that will meet up on 26 March to talk about the next steps in the protection of Arabana country and in particular the sacred mound springs.

Recovery in milk production, rising retail sales and rebounding export prices drive optimism in the dairy sector, struggling farmers to benefit from a Federal Government funding boost for rural financial counselling, and flood waters from Queensland start to reach Lake Eyre, which may increase the number of foxes and rabbits.

I catch up with Phil the Marree Publican for a yarn about what's happening in outback SA right now.

Australian honey producers have won what they hope is a final battle in a long-running trans-Tasman war over who can use the word, manuka, milk prices for the next financial year have been confirmed and dairy farmers will be getting paid less for their product and the latest winter outlook shows an 80 per cent chance of below average rainfall over the next three months.

South32 is looking to expand its mine on Groote Eylandt. Floodwaters which started in the NT have reached Lake Eyre.

In this episode the Marree Publican Phil Van Wegen and Andy have a good chat about the year that was in Marree and surrounds. We talk about the Pub and of course outback flights with Arid Air and what two expect up around Marree. We talk Lake Eyre, Cooper Creek, Coongie Lakes and much more. Also info about current flights from Waikerie over the once in a lifetime Murray River flood event. We give an insight into the local Marree community with the local Father Christmas parade and the Darts presentation all happening last night.For more Marree Info: Marree Hotel

The locations- Lake Bonney, Lake Eyre and Lake Dumbleyung. It was the height of the swinging sixties, and in Australia was a famous British speed record breaker determined to put himself in the history books. Donald Campbell, broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. That year was 1964 and he took his famous Bluebirds, on land and on water to both South Australia and Western Australia to become the fastest man.He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year.Come on and get that bucket list underway! This podcast is produced right here in Australia, The Road Less Travelled, made in Australia for Australians. Listen to the podcast onApple Podcasts,Google PodcastAudibleI Heart Radio Spotify We do not receive any corporate dollars for this show. If you are able to support the show with ongoing payments, we would love it if you could do soDid you know that you can speak to us to feature this show on your community radio station, or website, we would love to talk with you. If you would like to reach out and help us with this fiercely Australian and independent podcast with sponsorship or product support, please contact us.We love your feedback and comments, and if you have something that you think we should feature, review, visit or discuss, then please drop us an email phatcat@iinet.net.auLike us on FacebookFollow us on InstagramSupport us with regular contributions on PatreonTo make a once off contribution on StripePlease leave us a rating or review and share us with your mates!Thank you for supporting us, visit www.phatcatmedia.com.au for more information Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Conventional layer hen cages will be phased out in Australia by 2036 after an independent review panel released updated poultry standards, Riverland shoppers can again buy any fruit and vegetables at their local retailers and move across fruit fly outbreak and suspension boundaries with fruit and a receipt and a major Australian bank says asset lending in the last financial year was the highest ever and ag machinery led the demand.

Birdsville in the Australian Outback will become a golfing mecca if President of nation's newest 18 hole golf course has her way. Nell Brook has dreamed of having a golf course at Birdsville for 26 years, ever since she moved from South Africa to marry cattleman David Brook and live in the channel country in remote SW Queensland.The dream has come true after decades of planning and community hard work. The Birdsville Dunes Golf Club Club celebrated its first event with 200 golfers playing in the Outback Queensland Masters Golf.Travellers can now add golf to their bucket list of things to do in Birdsville along with crossing the Simpson Desert, visiting Lake Eyre, placing a bet at the Birdsville Races or enjoying camping under the big sky at the Big Red Bash.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Inflows from the Diamantina and more expected from the Cooper Creek in coming weeks has delivered a tourism boom for northern South Australia, after years of research, the methane-busting seaweed is now for sale to cattle feedlots in Australia and a fire at a major wool processing plant in China, is not to blame for the big fall in prices at this week's wool sales.

Apologies Folks! Sometimes life just gets in the way and no excuses, thats just what's happened to me. This podcast for some reason missed getting edited in a timely manner and my apologies to you. Here's an episode from February with Phil Van Wegen Owner of Arid Air and the Marree Pub. My mate Gary joined Phil and I for a meal around my place on a nice summery 40C Saturday. We enjoy a few beers and cover a lot of ground about Marree, Firepits, Flies, Lake Eyre, The Curdimurka Ball and a whole lot more.If your thinking of hitting The Simpson Desert, Birdsville or Oodnadatta tracks this year there's a ton of info in this one.Marree HotelPhone: 08 8675 8344

Originally aired January 11, 2021After needing a break from her career in film and TV, Sophie took a very fortuitous turn in her life by finding the most random job she could, milking camels. If you didn't realize camels could be milked, neither did I. To make a long story short, Sophie fell in love with camels and never went back to her old career. Her ongoing 5-year passion for camels has taken her to places like The Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre and The Tirari Desert, Uluru, Michigan USA, Texas, and Rajasthan India. At some point in the pursuit to learn more about these amazing creatures, Sophie got the idea to cross Australia on foot while being accompanied by 5 wild (or “feral”) camels. This would not only entail catching and taming 5 out of upwards of a million wild camels that roam Australia, but also walking thousands of kilometers across the vast and void Australian Outback. Keep in mind, Australia is the geographic size of the US with 1/10th of the population. A wild idea indeed!Today Sophie joins us from just over the halfway point of the journey in the bizarre little town of Coober Pedy. Check out this past Monday's episode for an update to this adventure. www.sophiematterson.comInstagram: @sophiemattersonFacebook Coast-to-Coast-to-camel-trekSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventure-sports-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We first caught up with Sophie early last year on episode 695 to hear about the first half of this epic adventure. Today we hear the second half.How the adventure started:After needing a break from her career in film and TV, Sophie took a very fortuitous turn in her life by finding the most random job she could, milking camels. If you didn't realize camels could be milked, neither did I. To make a long story short, Sophie fell in love with camels and never went back to her old career. Her ongoing 5 year passion for camels has taken her to places like The Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre and The Tirari Desert, Uluru, Michigan USA, Texas and Rajasthan, India. At some point in the pursuit to learn more about these amazing creatures, Sophie got the idea to cross Australia on foot while being accompanied by 5 wild (or “feral”) camels. This would not only entail catching and taming 5 out of upwards of a million wild camels that roam Australia, but also walking thousands of kilometers across the vast and void Australian Outback. Keep in mind, Australia is the geographic size of the US with 1/12th of the population.Today Sophie joins us having just completed the journey in December. Jude, Delilah, Charlie, Clayton, and Mac all made it to the finish line in Byron Bay, NSW. www.sophiematterson.comInstagram: @sophiemattersonFacebook Coast-to-Coast-to-camel-trekSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventure-sports-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

After needing a break from her career in film and TV, Sophie took a very fortuitous turn in her life by finding the most random job she could, milking camels. If you didn’t realize camels could be milked, neither did I. To make a long story short, Sophie fell in love with camels and never went back to her old career. Her ongoing 5-year passion for camels has taken her to places like The Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre and The Tirari Desert, Uluru, Michigan USA, Texas, and Rajasthan India. At some point in the pursuit to learn more about these amazing creatures, Sophie got the idea to cross Australia on foot while being accompanied by 5 wild (or “feral”) camels. This would not only entail catching and taming 5 out of upwards of a million wild camels that roam Australia but also walking thousands of kilometers across the vast and void Australian Outback. Keep in mind, Australia is the geographic size of the US with 1/10th of the population. A wild idea indeed! Today Sophie joins us from just over the halfway point of the journey in the bizarre little town of Coober Pedy. Jude, Delilah, Charlie, Clayton, and Mac will all continue the journey in March. www.sophiematterson.com ( http://www.sophiematterson.com ) Instagram: @sophiematterson ( https://www.instagram.com/sophiematterson/?hl=en ) Facebook Coast-to-Coast-to-camel-trek ( https://www.facebook.com/Coast-to-Coast-to-camel-trek-111405407226890 ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventure-sports-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nick Gleeson has achieved more in his life than most people could dream of. He climbed to the summit Mount Kilimanjaro, climbed beyond Mount Everest’s base camp, ran the New York marathon three times, made it onto the state cricket team of Victoria, carried the Olympic torch, and represented Australia in athletics. He also crossed the Simpson Desert and a part of Lake Eyre National Park - all while being blind since age 7. On this episode Nick shares his amazing life story, and chats about how he managed to turn tragic events in his life into a positive attitude that has helped him fulfil dreams that most people with the gift of sight might never be able to cross off their bucket lists. The athlete and author is a truly remarkable soul and listening to him talk about his adventures and other passions, such as art, fills you with joy and happiness. Here you can find out more about Nick´s adventures: http://nicholasgleeson.com.au/ This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-in-chief at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic

Nick Gleeson has achieved more in his life than most people could dream of. He climbed to the summit Mount Kilimanjaro, climbed beyond Mount Everest's base camp, ran the New York marathon three times, made it onto the state cricket team of Victoria, carried the Olympic torch, and represented Australia in athletics. He also crossed the Simpson Desert and a part of Lake Eyre National Park - all while being blind since age 7. On this episode Nick shares his amazing life story, and chats about how he managed to turn tragic events in his life into a positive attitude that has helped him fulfil dreams that most people with the gift of sight might never be able to cross off their bucket lists. The athlete and author is a truly remarkable soul and listening to him talk about his adventures and other passions, such as art, fills you with joy and happiness. Here you can find out more about Nick´s adventures: http://nicholasgleeson.com.au/ This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-in-chief at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this day in 1950, Australia learned that its driest and most inhospitable region had become a huge inland sea — and that it was being explored by the only white man who'd successfully made a living in the Lake Eyre area. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Grab your torch because its night time in the Arabana desert. Lakota tells us all about the stars and the stories of the night sky.

Grab your torch because its night time in the Arabana desert. Lakota tells us all about the stars and the stories of the night’s sky.

Nick Gleeson has achieved more in his life than most people could dream of. He climbed to the summit Mount Kilimanjaro, climbed beyond Mount Everest’s base camp, ran the New York marathon three times, made it onto the state cricket team of Victoria, carried the Olympic torch, and represented Australia in athletics. He also crossed the Simpson Desert and a part of Lake Eyre National Park - all while being blind since age 7. On this episode Nick shares his amazing life story, and chats about how he managed to turn tragic events in his life into a positive attitude that has helped him fulfil dreams that most people with the gift of sight might never be able to cross off their bucket lists. The athlete and author is a truly remarkable soul and listening to him talk about his adventures and other passions, such as art, fills you with joy and happiness. Here you can find out more about Nick´s adventures: http://nicholasgleeson.com.au/ This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-in-chief at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic

Nick Gleeson has achieved more in his life than most people could dream of. He climbed to the summit Mount Kilimanjaro, climbed beyond Mount Everest's base camp, ran the New York marathon three times, made it onto the state cricket team of Victoria, carried the Olympic torch, and represented Australia in athletics. He also crossed the Simpson Desert and a part of Lake Eyre National Park - all while being blind since age 7. On this episode Nick shares his amazing life story, and chats about how he managed to turn tragic events in his life into a positive attitude that has helped him fulfil dreams that most people with the gift of sight might never be able to cross off their bucket lists. The athlete and author is a truly remarkable soul and listening to him talk about his adventures and other passions, such as art, fills you with joy and happiness. Here you can find out more about Nick´s adventures: http://nicholasgleeson.com.au/ This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-in-chief at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's a very special time when Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) fills with water and all the animals return to Arabana Country! Let's celebrate and learn to paint up with Lakota.

It's a very special time when Kati Thanda fills with water and all the animals return to Arabana Country! Let's celebrate and learn to paint up with Lakota.

Would you believe that on the banks of Kati Thanda or Lake Eyre, South Australia, lies the world’s second-largest geoglyph? Did you know that from the 1940s until the 1970s cats lived in the Sydney Harbour Bridge. And finally, were you aware that at the end of WWI a French orphan was smuggled to Australia in a sack by Australian troops?

Sally Lucas showcases Amsterdam, and the best ways to see the Colisseum in Rome, and we enjoy an almost full Lake Eyre.

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In this episode I read Reading Poetry on Lake Eyre by Rachael Mead from her collection of poems The Flaw in the Pattern. and I do a little commentary on the poem. I hope you enjoy this episode, thank you for listening.

Pinba, otherwise known as 'Logic' was an Aboriginal man from the vicinity of Lake Eyre and Cooper Creek. In the late 19th Century he was arrested for manslaughter and went on to lead perhaps the most daring escape from Yatala Labour Prison in our state's history. We explore his epic story whilst enjoying this week's beer of the episode, which was Southwark Stout.  #AdeLOL #HeapsGoodHistory #AdelaideHistory #AdelaideComedy #AdelaidePodcast #SouthAustralianHistory 

Sally Lucas talks about the current state of the Kimberly and Lake Eyre.

@franksting (Gavin) Culturally Inappropriate and Under yer bed. Tunnel vision Back for the weekend Guardrails At my age Road trip to Lake Eyre

Val and Faith kick off a chilly spring morning with their bike moments, including a special one from studio guest Will Hartnett. After skimming through some local news we get down to busines as Will fills us in on his recent-ish bike adventure riding a Surly ECR from Alice Springs to Adelaide. Two weeks in the saddle on sandy tracks and enjoying some spectacular headwinds, Will had to resort to mathematics to keep himself entertained. It was all worth it though with a detour to Lake Eyre leading to possibly the best bike moment of his life.You can check out photos from Will's trip online here.We finish up with some upcoming events including those listed at Bike Fun, Hump Day Pump Day and the Bright 24hr.

In the last podcast we talked about how awesome South Australia is, but we ran out of time just talking about Adelaide and Kangaroo Island. And there's even more to the state than that! Northwest of Adelaide is the Eyre Peninsula, where you can swim with sharks or tuna, visit national parks, ancient caves and the Nullarbor Plain among other adventures. If you're looking for places called Eyre (perhaps you're a Charlotte Brontë fan?) Lake Eyre might be worth a visit. The lake is dry for most of the time but occasionally fills with water, especially after times of heavy rain in the north. The flooding in Queenstown this year and last has meant that the lake has had water in it for the last couple of years, and in 2008 we were lucky enough to see the lake for ourselves. If you don't have pilots as family members you can do a scenic flight from Coober Pedy, William Creek, Marree, Adelaide or even Brisbane, though it's a rather expensive day out. You could also choose a tour by 4x4 that takes you to the edge of the lake to see it from the ground. For more, visit http://indietravelpodcast.com/