In a landmark ruling that pulled back the curtain on the secrecy of Australia’s elite Special Air Service (SAS), one of the country’s most decorated soldiers, Ben Roberts-Smith, lost a defamation lawsuit against three Australian newspapers. The publications accused the former SAS corporal of participating in the murder of six…
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The Federal Court of Australia has dismissed the defamation case brought by Australia’s most decorated living soldier against three newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith, a former SAS corporal and Victoria Cross recipient, sued the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times and three journalists over a series of articles published in 2018. He claimed the newspapers wrongly portrayed him as a murderer, a…
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