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Bill McLoughlin

Ben Roberts-Smith: Australia’s most decorated living soldier loses war crimes defamation case

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost a defamation case in which three newspapers accused him of committing war crimes in Afghanistan.

Ben Roberts-Smith, a former member of the SAS who received the Victoria Cross and Medal of Gallantry, was accused of misconduct during his service by The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times who published a series of articles on him in 2018.

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