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Chris Masters

June 2021

Australian soldiers near Darwan, Afghanistan, in 2011.

Ben Roberts-Smith forced to explain a day that defines the SAS

For the first time in public, the decorated ex-soldier was forced to explain what happened when the SAS went hunting an Afghan soldier who had killed Australians.

  • Aaron Patrick
Ben Roberts-Smith launched defamation action against The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2018.

Ben Roberts-Smith v Nine puts us all in the box

It has been described as the biggest defamation action in Australia’s history. But the consequences are far more wide reaching and profound than defamation.

  • Max Mason

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