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Stokes rides towards sunset after rags-to-riches career

At age 85, Kerry Stokes might finally be ready to call it a day, bringing to an end one of Australian media's most eventful careers.

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The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war

The Australian War Memorial is in the news for reportedly retrospectively changing the rules of its Les Carlyon prize for military history. This resulted in it not being awarded to Walkley award-winning journalist Chris Masters’ book about disgraced special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.

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Morning Mail: Hastie threatens to quit over net zero, weight loss jab scam exposed, pole vault medal for Marschall

Prominent frontbencher gives Sussan Ley an ultimatum over climate policy; Kurtis Marschall comes third in epic final as Gout Gout fever builds

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Kim Beazley defends Australian War Memorial decision to exclude Ben Roberts-Smith book from prize

The former Labor leader says the Les Carlyon award is ‘explicitly for emerging authors’, disqualifying Chris Masters’ biography of the alleged war criminal

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith

Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time authors, ruling out Chris Masters’ book

The Guardian - AU

Billionaire's $13.5m bill after Roberts-Smith's loss

Media mogul Kerry Stokes has been left with a $13.5 million bill after bankrolling war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith' seven-year defamation battle.

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Kerry Stokes ordered to pay $13.5m legal bill over Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation suit

Seven boss handed bill by federal court after backing the disgraced former soldier in action against Nine Newspapers

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Australia’s top court denies war hero’s final appeal against finding he likely killed unarmed Afghans

A federal judge found in 2023 that Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, likely killed non-combatants unlawfully in 2009 and 2012

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Roberts-Smith's appeal bid reaches end of the road

Ben Roberts-Smith has exhausted his appeal rights against civil findings he killed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan while serving in the Australian Army.

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Severe thunderstorm warning for Porepunkah as manhunt continues – as it happened

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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’

The Guardian - AU

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

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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.

The Guardian - AU

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.

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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 Guardian - AU

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 Independent UK

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 Guardian - AU

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

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Bradfield counting paused until Monday – as it happened

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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.

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