Bernard Keane in Friday’s Crikey daily email, calling bullsh*t on more contrary-to-the-facts business lobby whinging about every difficulty they face being the fault of the government: We need a name for this — we’re calling it Whinger Whack-A-Mole. Business leader after business leader sticks their head up to blame Julia Gillard for all their own [...]

As Bernard Keane pointed out in yesterday’s Crikey, social conservative commentators have lost their biggest support in their opposition to ending restrictions on women serving in Australian defence forces: much of the defence establishment itself is now keen for such reform: But the push to remove the limits on female soldiers is from the brass. [...]