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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Just like many Tyre Recyclers, they made money by storing the waste “until an effect way of processing is developed”.

    The current way of effectively recycling vulcanised tyres is shipping to a 3rd-World country with no environmental or OH&S where they are processed in a few different ways.

    There were quite a few fly-by-night tyre recyclers who would rent a factory, fill it with tyres and then do a runner; pocketing the disposal fees. Then the Landlord would have a warehouse full of used tyres that they couldn’t do anything about.


  • We grew up in a 3 bedroom house. When we were becoming teenagers. Dad built an extension which expanded one of the bedrooms to provide enough room for two growing boys and enlarged the kitchen, added a family room and extended the lounge room into a lounge and dining room.

    We had one of two dinners parties in the new Dining room, but it became the defacto study as we entered High School.

    In order to free up the dining table again, the second extension featured a 4th bedroom (which opened onto a private deck), dedicated study and expanded laundry.

    All these extensions were a complete waste of money because my brother moved out shortly after we completed it and my younger sister moved out to live with our uncle and aunty after a heated argument with Dad over the Liberties of Man (and teenage girls).

    I believe that the house is now owned by some “New Australians” (and my dad would have called them) and has two families living together.


  • Back in the 1970s and 1990s, there has been a large Street-Race culture.

    There has since been a huge crack-down on this and a lot of the people who would have formerly driven like idiots in suburban streets, and then in empty housing estates and industrial parks have traded in their Commodores and Falcons for Patrols and Landcruisers. Now they tear up State Parks.

    Meanwhile, there are a larger proportion of the community who just want to visit The Great Outdoors; some of them want to perform outdoor activity’s; hiking, kayaking, recreational fishing, etc. and they need an off road vehicle to get to the beginning of their adventure. Others just want to experience the ambiance of camping away from other people and they need an off-road vehicle to get there. Some people want to travel to a location just for the sake of travelling.

    A soft-reader SUV is not suitable for a lot of these activities. Carrying a tinny, Roof-top-tent, kayak or mountain bike on the roof of a RAV4 or Honda CRV may be physically possible, but it probably is not be a good idea.

    You are 100% right about Dirt Bikes though.







  • No Development Zones wpuld definitely be a good thing, but no access to anyone zones wouldn’t be.

    The Australian Bush has been maintained and curated for at least 40,000 (probably closer to 80,000) years and closing off access to anyone is not the answer.

    If you visit State and National Parks that restrict public access (such as Bunyip State which only allows Cyclists and Horseriders) you may notice that a lot of the tracks are overgrown (to a point where Cyclists and Horseriders can’t use them).

    Meanwhile, other Parks that do allow 4WDing have been chewed up to a point where they are inaccessible to anything but a Unimog.