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

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.

  • byNick McKenzie andMatthew Knott

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Army retains sense of hubris despite stripping of medals

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.

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

‘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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

  • byColin Kruger
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What the Lehrmann case means for the future of defamation law in Australia
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Defamation

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.

  • byPeter Bartlett
The squalor of buying a scoop undermines good journalism
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Defamation

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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Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie nominated for journalist of the year award

Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie nominated for journalist of the year award

McClymont and McKenzie have been nominated for the Graham Perkin Australian journalist of the year award for their work on major investigations over the past year.

Roberts-Smith’s barrister cautions court against ‘amateur sleuthing’

Roberts-Smith’s barrister cautions court against ‘amateur sleuthing’

The war veteran’s high-stakes defamation appeal drew to a close on Friday,as his barrister urged a court to overturn a decision finding he was complicit in four murders.

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
‘Event of startling gravity’:Newspapers back SAS soldier’s account of execution

‘Event of startling gravity’:Newspapers back SAS soldier’s account of execution

The newspapers defending former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal say one of their key witnesses gave truthful evidence about a murder.

  • byMichaela Whitbourn