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Veteran takes last shot to overturn war crime findings

Disgraced special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has launched a last-ditch bid to overturn findings that he likely engaged in war crimes while on deployment.

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Australia whistleblower who exposed war crime allegations loses bid to reduce prison sentence

Australian army whistleblower David McBride, who leaked allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan to the media, has lost a court bid to have his prison sentence reduced

The Independent UK

Court’s nuanced analysis of McKenzie’s secret recording in Roberts-Smith appeal a far cry from Sky News claims

All the same, the Nine reporter found it a ‘terrifying experience to be put before the full bench of the federal court’. Plus: SBS returns to ‘Sex Before Soccer’

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Ben Roberts-Smith Probed Over Additional Suspected Murders & Video Drinking From Dead Man’s Prosthetic Limb

Investigators are looking into the possibility of more suspected murders ordered by Ben Roberts-Smith, along with reported video evidence of Roberts-Smith drinking out of the prosthetic leg of a man he executed.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation appeal failed because ‘unlike most homicides, there were three eyewitnesses’, judges explain

SAS veteran acted with ‘a certain recklessness or perhaps even brazenness’ when he killed a man with a prosthetic leg in Afghanistan, court finds

The Guardian - AU

Sad but simple explanations in veteran's lost appeal

There was no widespread conspiracy in the silence over Ben Roberts-Smith's war crimes, judges have found in dismissing the disgraced veteran's appeal.

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Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on Ben Roberts-Smith and media ‘gloating’

Billionaire’s comments come in wake of former SAS soldier losing his appeal against defamation case ruling

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Roberts-Smith faces battle for High Court challenge

Disgraced special forces veteran Ben Roberts-Smith's bid to take his legal battle to the High Court will be difficult but not impossible, legal sources say.

AAP

Ben Roberts-Smith has lost an appeal in his long-running defamation case. Here’s why

The full Federal Court has dismissed Ben Roberts-Smith’s appeal to have his defamation case loss overturned.

The Conversation

Afternoon Update: Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation appeal; Pesutto to pay $2.3m; and flushing worm wins photography prize

Federal court agrees SAS veteran was not defamed by Nine newspapers when it published reports he committed war crimes in Afghanistan

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s most decorated soldier loses appeal against war crimes defamation ruling

Ben Roberts-Smith is accused of unlawfully killing four civilians while serving in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Ben Roberts-Smith loses appeal against defamation ruling he committed war crimes in Afghanistan

Ruling upholds decision of justice Anthony Besanko in 2023 who found SAS veteran had, on balance of probabilities, murdered unarmed civilians

The Guardian - AU

Bradfield counting paused until Monday – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Roberts-Smith to take war crimes claims to High Court

Disgraced veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has vowed to head to the nation's highest court after he lost an appeal against findings that he engaged in war crimes.

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Disgraced veteran to learn fate over war crimes claims

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith will learn whether he has been successful in his bid to clear his name after he was accused of being a war criminal.

The Guardian - AU

Nick McKenzie denies seeing privileged communication between Ben Roberts-Smith and his lawyers

Investigative journalist says ‘legal strategy’ he referred to in secret recording was reference to war veteran allegedly telling his ex-wife to lie to court

AAP

Feuding journo and veteran stare down over taped call

Disgraced veteran Ben Roberts-Smith and the journalist who exposed his alleged war crimes have exchanged a cold look after a marathon probe into a taped call.

The Guardian - AU

Journalist Nick McKenzie admits to ‘deceptive methods’ if in the public interest during Ben Roberts-Smith bid for appeal

McKenzie was also questioned over his communications with Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife, Emma Roberts, and her friend Danielle Scott

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Journalist admits 'subterfuge' as veteran seeks retrial

An investigative journalist has admitted to using 'deceptive methods' as he faces claims he gained an illegal insight into Ben Roberts-Smith's legal strategy.

The Guardian - AU

Nine journalist Nick McKenzie allegedly told of Ben Roberts-Smith’s planned legal action

Roberts-Smith argues his unsuccessful defamation case against McKenzie and Nine newspapers should be retried because of a ‘miscarriage of justice’

AAP

'You owe me': text inflames veteran's bid for retrial

A tip-off to an investigative journalist who levelled war crime claims at a decorated veteran has raised eyebrows amid a push for a retrial.

The Conversation

‘Ambitious’ or ‘pretentious’? The contested legacy of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

In 2018, it was announced that Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) would be made into a “high-end drama series” by FremantleMedia. Jo Porter, Fremantle’s director of drama, called the novel “ripe for screen adaptation with huge visual potential and scale”. A…

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War veteran's parents slam 'concerning' secret call

A secret conversation between a journalist and Ben Roberts-Smith's ex-lover could explain the decorated soldier's bruising defamation loss, his parents believe.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith demands defamation retrial citing alleged recording of Nine investigative journalist

Federal court hears Nick McKenzie allegedly told a witness that Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife and her friend were ‘actively briefing us on his legal strategy’

AAP

Lawyer who took down Ben Roberts-Smith made a judge

A lawyer who proved Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith committed war crimes is one of eight new appointments to the Federal Court.

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