Ben Roberts-Smith: calls for uniform to be removed from Australian War Memorial display

David Shoebridge of the Greens says the Australian War Memorial must ‘remove Ben Roberts-Smith’s uniform from public display and begin telling the entire truth of Australia’s involvement in that brutal war’. Photograph: Mick Tasikas/AAP

The Australian War Memorial is facing calls to remove Ben Roberts-Smith’s uniform from its display after the federal court dismissed the defamation case initiated by Australia’s most decorated living soldier.

But the Australian Special Air Service Association has argued it was “a very disappointing day” for veterans who had served in Afghanistan, saying the majority who had done the right thing were being “re-traumatised after having gone through a difficult war”.