Dutton earns his stripes over unit citations

Peter Dutton has stamped his authority on his new portfolio in a way that demonstrates that he is a leader who is prepared to stand up for values that most Australians espouse and suggests that the wrong man won the leadership contest in 2018.  In my view, the most important of his recent announcements is his insistence that Defence focus on its core mission and not woke cultural fads.  But here I would like to address the question of the Meritorious Unit Citation.  

Let me say at the outset that I did not support the revocation of the citation for reasons I will go into later. But first, I propose to indulge in a little semantics here just to help put things in perspective.  Most commentators do not…