But won't anyone think of the trash pak operators cries Simon!

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I heard Zed talking about this yesterday, he used words to the effect of “I have been scratching my head wondering why the ACT Government isn’t doing this already’.

That led me to start scratching my head wondering why Zed had not moved, in the Assembly, that this be done? Surely he could have negotiated a plan with the Greens that would have been able to get through.

Too busy?

Too lazy.

…or maybe because he hasn’t been in government?

You know you’re a rusted on True Believer when you can find a way to bash the other team even when it’s your own tribe at fault.

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colourful sydney racing identity said :

I heard Zed talking about this yesterday, he used words to the effect of “I have been scratching my head wondering why the ACT Government isn’t doing this already’.

That led me to start scratching my head wondering why Zed had not moved, in the Assembly, that this be done? Surely he could have negotiated a plan with the Greens that would have been able to get through.

Too busy?

Too lazy.

You say that as if you actually believe the Greens are reasonable and can be negotiated with to achieve outcomes that benefit the bulk of the Canberra population, and not just their own cause.

They have done very little in the last term that would suggest that’s true.

I heard Zed talking about this yesterday, he used words to the effect of “I have been scratching my head wondering why the ACT Government isn’t doing this already’.

That led me to start scratching my head wondering why Zed had not moved, in the Assembly, that this be done? Surely he could have negotiated a plan with the Greens that would have been able to get through.

Too busy?

Too lazy.

HenryBG said :

schmeah said :

I’d rather have a green waste bin provided, only because my last trash-pack invoice ……

In other words, you’d like me to subsidise your trashpack invoices in future..

I was joking BG. I’m happy to have a trash pak which I pay for, just don’t appreciate childish political opinions on an invoice, I’m otherwise happy to pay.

HenryBG said :

schmeah said :

I’d rather have a green waste bin provided, only because my last trash-pack invoice ……

In other words, you’d like me to subsidise your trashpack invoices in future..

Well I guess that would be OK. But if we get a choice as to where your particular rates go I vote that they go to funding gay marriages and needle exchange programs.

HenryBG said :

schmeah said :

I’d rather have a green waste bin provided, only because my last trash-pack invoice ……

In other words, you’d like me to subsidise your trashpack invoices in future..

I’d like all roads that are not directly between my house and my workplace to be left to nature, please. I don’t use 98% of the roads in Canberra – why should I have to pay?

HenryBG said :

schmeah said :

I’d rather have a green waste bin provided, only because my last trash-pack invoice ……

In other words, you’d like me to subsidise your trashpack invoices in future..

Yes, thanks, that would be grand.

But seriously … are you really suggesting that ACTGovCo should only provide services that *everyone* uses? Or just the ones that you want?

The idea is so witless I’m tempted to call “troll”.

schmeah said :

I’d rather have a green waste bin provided, only because my last trash-pack invoice ……

In other words, you’d like me to subsidise your trashpack invoices in future..

I have still got the green waste bin in the back yard from when this was tried several years ago. it was a failure then, why will it not be a failure this time?

I’d rather have a green waste bin provided, only because my last trash-pack invoice came with a free rant about the Carbon Tax, written with occasional block lettering and !!!!!! exclamation markings !!!!!, like a pre-schooler. Seriously, I pay for a service not an incoherent political opinion.

As far as Zed and big Vick go, useless .. the green waste bin policy has been floating around rank-and-file meetings of the ALP and the Greens for at least 3 years, neither of them can come up with their own ideas and they think Canberrans are just idiots.