Ben Roberts-Smith has launched a last-ditch effort to access three diary entries of Maj Gen Paul Brereton, the officer who wrote the Afghanistan Inquiry into alleged war crimes committed by Australian special forces troops.
In a parallel court action to the defamation case, the former Victoria Cross recipient Roberts-Smith has brought against three Australian newspapers, the former SAS corporal has pursued a five-year freedom of information application seeking access to three entries from Brereton’s diary during the course of his Afghanistan investigation.
