War criminal Ben Roberts-Smith in 2022.

War criminal Ben Roberts-Smith lodges legal bid over leaked recording

The former Special Air Service corporal wants to reopen the appeal in his failed defamation case,claiming he was not afforded a fair process.

  • Calum Jaspan

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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 andNick McKenzie
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 andMatthew 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.

Decorated special forces veteran Ben Roberts-Smith lost a defamation case against The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

‘Unconscionable’:UN experts slam delay in compensating alleged Afghan war crime victims

The experts also called on the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to stop celebrating disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith after a damning defamation judgment.

  • Matthew Knott
Ben Roberts-Smith at Government House in Perth on Thursday.

WA governor hosts Ben Roberts-Smith as he receives medal from the King

The disgraced war criminal has been welcomed to Government House in Perth to receive the honour bestowed by King Charles III.

  • Nick McKenzie,Jesinta Burton andHolly Thompson
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Principles of open justice demand our right to know

Journalists spend much of their time fighting for information to which they should rightfully be allowed access.

The print edition of The Australian Financial Review soon will be unavailable in Perth.

AFR to cut print in WA after Seven’s ‘abuse of power’

The Australian Financial Review will no longer have a physical edition in Perth after Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media doubled the cost of printing the newspaper.

  • Colin Kruger
Bruce Lehrmann.

What the Lehrmann case means for the future of defamation law in Australia

There is little doubt that lawyers do well in defamation cases. But you rarely find a plaintiff who,at the end of the trial,believes they made the right move in suing.

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Bruce Lehrmann during the 2023 Spotlight interview.

The squalor of buying a scoop undermines good journalism

The ever-growing cluster of self-immolation surrounding the Lehrmann case has now remorselessly spread to journalism,thrusting it into the unaccustomed role of guilty bystander while besmirching a profession vitally important to a fairer society.

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