Ex-CFA 12yr veteran firefighter. Leadbeater's Possum eco-advocate. Bipolar AMI survivor. Nominated domestic spider relocation expert.
Tyabb, Victoria, Australia
Joined March 2009
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Brad Lemon retweeted
Huge win for the community with Victoria Barracks in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as historic Point Cook, being kept in public hands. Labor wanted to privatise them, but community campaigns, and a months long Senate inquiry, has forced Labor to back down. That’s people power.
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🌹 LEST WE FORGET 🌹
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
🇬🇧 From the battlefields of the past to the conflicts of today, we remember every life given in service to our country.
Their sacrifice must never be forgotten.
🌹 We will remember them.
🇬🇧 Lest We Forget. 🌹
Brad Lemon retweeted
Thinning is another means for industry to access and extract resources from native forest. Thinning does not create a healthy forest - it creates one that is degraded & prone to carry more intense & frequent fires. Thinning is just another form of logging
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Brad Lemon retweeted
Not Bad for a Bunch of Old Folks.
They tag us with the label "The Elderly." Fair enough. The gray hairs outnumber the rest, the knees lodge a formal protest on every staircase, and standing up from an armchair produces sound effects like a transmission slipping into reverse. But that label misses the real story entirely.
We are the very last generation that holds the memory of an analog planet. We grew up when "Googling" something was impossible because the word didn't exist. If curiosity struck, you pulled a heavy volume of the encyclopedia off the shelf or tracked down someone who genuinely knew their stuff.
Childhood was an outdoor sport. The curfew was the flicker of the streetlights. Water came straight from the garden hose, disputes were settled right on the driveway instead of in a comment section, and our social network was simply called the front porch.
We gathered around fuzzy black-and-white screens to watch footprints planted on the Moon. We listened to music on vinyl, bulky 8-tracks, magnetic tapes, shiny compact discs, and now out of thin air via invisible radio waves.
Romance didn't come from an algorithm; it came from looking someone in the eye. We waited a week for a handwritten letter without flinching, while folks today lose their composure if a text message sits unread for forty seconds.
In a single lifetime, we crossed the chasm from rotary dials to pocket computers, manual typewriters to artificial intelligence, and folded paper roadmaps to a dashboard voice politely informing us we missed the turn. And through every single leap, we didn't get left behind—we adapted.
We bridged two centuries, navigated monumental shifts in history and technology, buried dear friends, welcomed new generations, and earned the perspective to know that tomorrow's catastrophe is rarely remembered next year.
We aren't museum pieces. We're living proof that you can welcome the future without surrendering common sense.
So whenever someone smiles and calls us "elderly," smile right back. Behind that word is an entire era of grit, evolution, and grace. 😏😉
Not bad at all for a bunch of old folks.
Brad Lemon retweeted
🚨: Mia Heller, high school student, has invented a water filter which filters out 95.5% microplastics
ALT 🚨: Mia Heller, high school student, 18, invents water filter that eliminates 95.5% of microplastics.
ALT 🚨: Mia Heller, high school student, 18, invents water filter that eliminates 95.5% of microplastics.
Disclaimer: Hagrid is also my dog.
We have spent thousands in vet bills recently, but our emergency money has run out. We need your help to get Hagrid out of pain. Just $2 makes a difference. Thanks for your support.
Hagrid, my beloved 10-year-old dog, is in severe pain and needs a CT scan to find out what's wrong. The cost is $4,000, and I can't do this alone. Please consider donating or sharing his story. Every bit helps. Thank you! ❤️ gofund.me/455cef512
Brad Lemon retweeted
Reform at KCC voted to destroy 100 acres of irreplaceable ancient woodland at Oaken Wood, blocking a Green amendment to save it. This ecological disaster must be stopped. The fight shifts to the Planning Inspectorate next—get ready to object! 🌲✊ #SaveOakenWood #KCC
Brad Lemon retweeted
It’s been three years since the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal determined that Rifle Company Butterworth veterans should be recognised and receive entitlements for their service in Malaysia between 1970 and 1989.
Yet still, Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt Keogh and the Albanese Labor Government is failing to act, leaving veterans left waiting for entitlements they have already been found to deserve. It is utterly shameful.
These men answered Australia's call when their country needed them. The least the Government can do is treat them with respect and honour its obligations to care for those who defended our nation’s freedoms.
Brad Lemon retweeted
Good morning all & a very happy anniversary to the Royal Australian Navy. On 10 July 1911 - so 115 years ago today - King George V granted the then Commonwealth Naval Forces the title of the "Royal Australian Navy". GSTK 👑
Brad Lemon retweeted
Australia now makes so much solar power that at midday its electricity is worth less than zero, so the grid has started giving it away.
Roughly one in three Australian homes has panels on the roof, the highest household solar rate in the world. About 4.3 million systems pour power into the grid every sunny afternoon. When they all peak together, there is far more electricity than the grid needs, and the price crashes.
For the first three months of 2025 the price of power on the national market sat at zero or below 18 percent of the time, according to the market operator. In Queensland it went negative 66 percent of the time during daylight hours in one quarter. Negative prices mean the companies making the power actually pay to get rid of it.
A new rule, live since July 1, gives households up to 24 kilowatt-hours of free power for three hours in the middle of the day, roughly a day's electricity for a five-person home. It runs in New South Wales, South East Queensland, and South Australia, and you need a smart meter to opt in. You still pay a daily connection fee, plus normal rates for anything outside the window.
Follow the money and the generosity fades. At midday the grid holds more solar than it can use, so it would rather you run the dishwasher, the pool pump, or charge a car than switch the panels off. Queensland already throws away more than a quarter of what its big solar farms make on sunny days. Free power mops up the flood.
The other side of the deal is the evening. Solar disappears at sunset, everyone comes home and turns on the oven and the air conditioning, and prices jump as gas power stations rush to fill the gap. Every load you move into the cheap midday window is a load pulled out of that pricey evening peak.
The same flood has slashed what solar owners earn. The rate you get paid for sending your own power to the grid has halved to about 6 cents, while the price you pay has doubled to 29 cents. In July 2025 New South Wales became the first state to charge solar homes a fee just for exporting.
Three free hours a day sounds like a gift from a country swimming in sunshine. It is the cheapest way for the grid to swallow a flood of solar it never planned for.
Brad Lemon retweeted
"Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet." — Carl Sagan
Brad Lemon retweeted
Year after year, this continues to be the best 4th of July fireworks video out there…
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so incredibly disturbing. Vet is saying no the greyhound doesn't need to be killed, but owner insists kill kill kill. So the dog is killed. And how dare they use the word "euthanasia" - could use a lot of words to describe the killing of this greyhound but euthanasia is not one of them.
Many greyhounds are killed in Victoria for similar injuries - utterly shameful and the silence from most members of parliament and media is disgusting.
#BANGREYHOUNDRACING
"Mepunga Loaf" in footage below suffered a suspected right hock fracture on 13 August 2025 at Ballarat Victoria. The vet did NOT consider this a life-threatening injury and vet costs would have been covered. But the owner "refused to consider further x-rays or treatment and insisted, against her advice, that the dog be euthanised". He was killed that night "in the presence of several GRV personnel"
#bangreyhoundracing
"This dog was injured while racing at Ballarat on 13 August 2025. We heard evidence from Dr Amanda Tenne, the on-course veterinarian at the time"
"She said that she examined the dog after the race and suspected that it had suffered a right hock fracture. She did not consider the dog had sustained a catastrophic life-threatening injury. She advised Mr Mellington to obtain an x-ray for an exact diagnosis. She said the attending GRV steward, Mr James Jeffrey, advised Mr Mellington that the veterinary costs associated with the injury would be met out of the Greyhound Recovery Initiative (“GRI”) and that he would not bear any cost"
#bangreyhoundracing
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Brad Lemon retweeted
Glass is a true "permanent material"—it can be recycled indefinitely (100% closed-loop) without any loss in quality, purity, or performance. Unlike most materials, its chemical structure remains unchanged through repeated melting and reforming, allowing old bottles and jars to become brand-new high-quality containers forever.
This stands in stark contrast to plastic, which is far cheaper for companies to produce and transport (lighter weight means lower shipping costs, and raw material/energy inputs are generally lower). Yet this short-term savings comes at a steep environmental price: we're degrading ecosystems, landfills, and oceans to cut a few cents per unit.
Glass offers genuine sustainability advantages when recycled properly:
• Using cullet (recycled glass fragments) replaces virgin raw materials (sand, soda ash, limestone)—one tonne of cullet saves about 1.2 tonnes of new resources.
• It slashes energy use dramatically: every 10% increase in cullet reduces furnace energy needs by ~2.5–3%, and melting 100% cullet can cut energy by up to ~40% compared to virgin production.
• CO₂ emissions drop significantly—studies show ~580–670 kg saved per tonne of recycled glass (cradle-to-cradle), with up to 58–60% reduction when using high cullet percentages.
• Fewer raw material extractions mean less mining impact and habitat disruption.
The key to unlocking glass's full potential is clean, color-sorted collection. Mixed colors or contamination (from curbside debris, ceramics, or other recyclables) often downgrades glass to lower-value uses like fiberglass insulation or road aggregate instead of bottle-to-bottle recycling. Proper sorting—by color and purity—keeps it in the premium loop.
By improving recycling habits (rinsing containers, separating by color where possible, and supporting deposit-return systems), we can maximize glass's role in a true circular economy. It's one of the few packaging options that genuinely protects resources long-term—let's not sacrifice it for cheaper, disposable alternatives that harm the planet.
