Nervous Nellies need to harden the hell up

Updated August 7 2018 - 11:11am, first published 11:08am

Two episodes in the past fortnight demonstrate that as a society we are losing the ability to stick to our guns. First came the signs of panic in the ranks of the government when it failed to pick up seats in the Super Saturday by-elections and got mauled in the Queensland seat of Longman. Then the abject caving of Coles on the plastic bags issue – initially to the pushback from customers then the environmentalists who rightly cried blue murder.

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