Roz's reply is excellent and omits only one significant factor.

As a reasoned society we should never set aside the respect that is due to those who provide a lifetime's public service and who deliver those duties professionally and diligently. The qualities of services articulated in Roz's post should be recognsed.

To describe a protest that is undertaken in order to protect what can only be described as an entitlement as flawed, is dogma of a category on its own.

It serves only to irrationally set aside public servants' dedication and thereby to insult and offer a level of disrespect that is genuinely untenable in a reasoned mind.

Does Abfall equate to ordure ?

DHT's astonishment at the absence of a solid metric of what is measurably affordable is supported by the parliamentary PAC which has called upon the coalition to define exactly what they mean by "affordable".