Absolutely dire stupidity from our team. No way Smith's future as a leader is in anyway tenable, though I think calls for a life ban are a bit much. They deserve all the crap they're getting and then some. This is a big big black mark against a guy who was making a strong case to be a top 5, even top 3 player of all time. No matter what he does on the pitch, he'll forever have an asterisk against his achievements.
That being said, the sanctimonious bullshit from pundits from other countries going on about how this is indicative of Australia's rotten sporting culture can kindly f**k off. The reason this is being treated as a big deal is because we as a nation are condemning it so vigorously. I don't recall the public of their respective nations coming out so strongly when ol Faf had his episode with the mints or Afridi mistook the ball for an apple.