Mr. Smith
You state:
"Safety has always been limited to what society can afford. That's why you have to be very astute and allocate the finite resources so they save the most lives."
Save the most lives?? Yet you have degraded the safety afforded to those that carry the most lives.
Then:
"The reason Class C airspace above places like Launceston has been changed to Class E is so that air traffic control resources can be moved to where the collision risk is highest and where the most serious incidents have been occurring."
To an enroute radar controller, Class E demands more resources than Class C.
We still have to separate IFR/IFR and now have to provide reactive separation with VFR's rather than planned tactical separation.
By the way, caught your input on the "Ugg Boot" issue. Good to see you're not pro-U.S. on everything. Maybe there is hope yet.