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Ben Roberts-Smith outside the Federal Court in 2022.

‘Person 17’: Conversation with Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-lover at centre of appeal bid

Three judges will hear Ben Roberts-Smith’s application to introduce a leaked audio recording in evidence in his defamation appeal.

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Ready for the brickbats… helmets at the Rio Tinto research centre in Loznica, Serbia.

Rio Tinto attempts image rehab by funding university Indigenous centre

Nearly five years after the global mining giant drew global condemnation for destroying ancient Indigenous rock sites, Rio Tinto is still trying to make amends.

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Ben Roberts-Smith.

Court quashes federal police bid to keep Ben Roberts-Smith corruption probe secret

The Federal Court has brushed aside the AFP’s attempts to keep secret the details of an anti-corruption investigation that reached the top levels of the peak policing body.

  • Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
The Australian War Memorial is paralysed by internal politics over how to acknowledge war crimes findings against the Australian military, including the nation’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.

Leaked War Memorial files show ructions over war crimes exhibit, ‘interference’

Leaked files reveal perceptions of “increased interference” at the Australian War Memorial over its treatment of war crimes by Australian soldiers.

  • Nick McKenzie
Nick McKenzie addresses media after the Ben Roberts-Smith judgment in June.

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The Age’s investigative reporters have brought down public officials, revealed corruption, and uncovered organised crime operations and war crimes. As the masthead turns 170, we celebrate their journalism.

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Defence Minister Richard Marles this week stripped officers of medals.

Caution is needed, but war crime investigation delays are of concern

The Office of the Special Investigator needs to proceed carefully but every day that justice is delayed increases the chances that it will be denied.

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Ben Roberts-Smith outside Federal Court in May 2022.

Ben Roberts-Smith welcomed at Defence party days before Marles strips officers’ medals

The war criminal attended a gala to mark a Special Air Service Regiment anniversary days before the government stripped officers of honours earned in Afghanistan.

  • Nick McKenzie and Matthew Knott
Ben Roberts-Smith: sued for defamation and lost.

Army retains sense of hubris despite stripping of medals

The Albanese government stripped distinguished service medals from some soldiers but the most notorious retains his tarnished Victoria Cross.

Retired corporal and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith is a "potentially affected person" in the upcoming IGADF inquiry into the conduct of SAS troops in Afghanistan.

Former AFP commissioner Mick Keelty gives up Order of Australia

Mick Keelty has given up his Order of Australia, almost four years after this masthead revealed he told secret details from serving police to disgraced war hero Ben Roberts-Smith.

  • Olivia Ireland

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