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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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Disgraced war hero Ben Roberts-Smith.

AFP argues corrupt agents will escape scrutiny if war crimes leak disclosed

The nation’s premier crime-fighting agency refused for a fifth time to release details of its investigation into a leak that threatened to derail a war crimes inquiry into Ben Roberts Smith.

  • Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
Justin Hemmes outside one of his Sydney venues in 2022.

Minns won’t avoid embattled Merivale venues

Despite a series of damaging investigations published in this masthead, Justin Hemmes’ establishments continue to enjoy high-profile patronage.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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
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
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
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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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