The former Special Air Service corporal wants to reopen the appeal in his failed defamation case,claiming he was not afforded a fair process.
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.
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.
The Albanese government stripped distinguished service medals from some soldiers but the most notorious retains his tarnished Victoria Cross.
The experts also called on the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to stop celebrating disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith after a damning defamation judgment.
The disgraced war criminal has been welcomed to Government House in Perth to receive the honour bestowed by King Charles III.
Journalists spend much of their time fighting for information to which they should rightfully be allowed access.
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.
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.
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.