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A special forces soldier on the ground in Afghanistan.

War crimes investigator launches raids in major escalation

The elite anti-war crimes agency probing Ben Roberts-Smith and other ex-SAS soldiers has conducted raids in Perth.

  • Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie

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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.

Unexpected poo emoji lands in a Federal Court judgment

War criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation appeal brought a legal first in a Federal Court judgment.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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
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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
Journalist Nick McKenzie's response to the Full Court of the Federal Court's decision in the appeal of the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case.
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Nick McKenzie reflects on BRS appeal decision

Journalist Nick McKenzie's response to the Full Court of the Federal Court's decision in the appeal of the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case.

Ben Roberts-Smith (left) and Nick McKenzie outside the Federal Court in Sydney earlier this month.

Court rejects Ben Roberts-Smith’s attack on star reporter

The former SAS soldier failed in a bid to widen his defamation appeal to include evidence of a “secret recording” of investigative journalist Nick McKenzie.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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