This poignant closing tryptich in the ‘Nee Naw’ series explores different directions that have been taken by the gradual decline of our public service ethos from its twentieth-century apogee. Whether a kind of resigned, angry collapse, an escape into hedonism or simply abandonment – an ethic, a mindset ‘put out to pasture’, Nee Naw 3 challenges us to ask whether our responses to the collapse of a powerful communitarian ideal need really be the end.