Sticky wicket in Australia

The pendency of a judicial inquiry into allegations of war crimes by members of Australia's SAS Regiment has started to boil over, as witness this piece by Sydney Morning Herald investigative reporter Nick McKenzie. Excerpt:

In addition to attacking the revelations in Fairfax Media, Roberts-Smith’s backers have also turned on the Brereton Inquiry.

It is an easy target. Only a few top military figures appear to have any sense of its direction and they are not talking. No one in defence who Fairfax Media has spoken to knows what Justice Brereton will find. A senior political staffer told Fairfax Media this week: “We have tried to get a steer from the judge and he told us to bugger off. He said we can see his report when it is finished.”