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The F/A-18 Hornet under the Aperture in the Middle East Gallery, seen during a visit to view construction work of Anzac Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Wednesday 2 July

From Black Hawks to $2 pool noodles: Inside the new Anzac Hall

Engineering and architectural nous is behind the controversial expansion of the Australian War Memorial, which will include helicopters, armoured vehicles and an F/A-18A Hornet.

  • Julie Power

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Former Australian Soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is seen in the crowd during the Richmond Tigers and Adelaide Crows at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Ben Roberts-Smith heads for Tigerland – but the day doesn’t go his way

The disgraced former soldier’s appearance at the MCG set off a scramble to see who might have invited him.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Ben Roberts-Smith outside court on May 1.

Ben Roberts-Smith’s last-ditch bid to overturn war crimes decision

The former SAS corporal wants the High Court to overturn a damning defamation decision that found he was complicit in the murder of four Afghan prisoners.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney on Friday, May 2.

Roberts-Smith’s rabid band of supporters has an outspoken new member – Gina Rinehart

Australia’s richest person has asked why this “brave and patriotic man” should be “under such attack”. The answer is nearly 1000 pages of court judgments.

  • Chris Masters
Ben Roberts-Smith (left) with a former colleague drinking from the prosthetic leg of a dead Afghan man in 2012.

Investigators probe Ben Roberts-Smith over more murders and video drinking from dead man’s prosthetic limb

A secretive and powerful investigation into the disgraced soldier has uncovered damning fresh evidence as well as video of him drinking from a prosthetic leg, which he denied under oath.

  • Nick McKenzie
Ben Roberts-Smith leaves the Federal Court in Sydney earlier this month.

Ding, dong, ditch and a box full of dung: Labor complains after protest at premier’s door

Two Liberal MPs stand accused of escorting a member of the public to the door of the premier’s parliamentary office to leave behind an “offensive prop”.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Ben Roberts-Smith outside the Federal Court earlier this month.

Roberts-Smith war crime suggested ‘recklessness or brazenness’, court says

An appeal court said it was “a rare murder that is witnessed by three independent witnesses” as it upheld a finding the former SAS soldier committed unlawful killings.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

War Memorial to update Roberts-Smith panels but display will remain

Greater context about the Brereton report into war crimes is also expected to be included when the memorial’s updated Middle East gallery opens this year.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his appeal over the finding that he is a war criminal.

The seven words that ended Ben Roberts-Smith’s $1.5m appeal bid

The former soldier hoped a secret recording would salvage his legal case, but it was a siren call that dashed him on the rocks.

  • Harriet Alexander
Ben Roberts-Smith outside the Federal Court earlier this month.

Ben Roberts-Smith loses appeal over war crimes judgment

After a seven-year defamation fight and tens of millions of dollars in legal costs, the former elite soldier has lost his bid to overturn the landmark decision.

  • Michaela Whitbourn and Sarah McPhee

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