The offer was made to then-defence minister Linda Reynolds but was turned down by the Morrison government because it did not want anybody’s medals revoked.
The sociologist who triggered the Brereton war crimes inquiry says soldiers who oversaw alleged wrongdoing in Afghanistan should be stripped of their honours.
There are growing calls for the Australian War Memorial to remove or amend its Roberts-Smith display,and now the artist behind two major works has weighed in.
What is especially noteworthy about Australia’s run of bad foreign press is that it has come from across the political spectrum.
Former PM Kevin Rudd praised Australia’s democratic system for confronting “hard and ugly truths” when many other countries would have “swept them under the rug”.
A Special Air Service soldier told the Federal Court that Ben Roberts-Smith’s bullying,including a death threat,cost him “years of lost sleep”.
The Kathleen Folbigg case shows we need a criminal review commission in this country.
After tipping tens of millions of dollars and a portion of his own credibility into this case,Kerry Stokes might still find that gambling a million or so more on an appeal is a bet he’s willing to take.
Those with a moral centre are the ones we should hail as heroic,and they are all around us,hiding in plain sight.
The judge who presided over Ben Roberts-Smith’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit said the former soldier had a motive to lie and had threatened a soldier who ultimately gave evidence against him.
A Federal Court judge was not satisfied the former SAS soldier had assaulted a former lover but said he had engaged in other disturbing behaviour against her.