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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade

Kerry Stokes’ gamble on Ben Roberts-Smith backfires as Seven bets on Bruce Lehrmann

(L-R) Seven West chairman Kerry Stokes (left) bankrolled Ben Robert-Smith’s defamation case against the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Canberra Times. Meanwhile, Bruce Lehrmann.
(L-R) Seven West chairman Kerry Stokes bankrolled Ben Robert-Smith’s defamation case against the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Canberra Times. Meanwhile, Bruce Lehrmann will tell his story on 7News’s Spotlight on Sunday night. Composite: Bianca de Marchi/AAP/Mick Tsikas

Sunday night will see another battle between Nine and Seven, as 60 Minutes’ Ben Roberts-Smith exposé takes on Spotlight’s exclusive interview with Bruce Lehrmann.

The duelling current affairs shows will face off days after Seven and Nine backed different horses in the Roberts-Smith defamation trial, with Seven boss Kerry Stokes’s pick losing badly when a judge found, on the balance of probabilities, that the newspapers being sued had proven in their defence that the former SAS soldier, who Stokes said was innocent, had committed war crimes.

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