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Lawyer for Ben Roberts-Smith details war veteran's five-year fight for diary notes

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith made the FOI application in October 2017. (AAP: Dan Himbrechts)

Ben Roberts-Smith has spent five years fighting to access secret diary notes he believes may detail meetings between the head of the Afghanistan inquiry and journalist Chris Masters, a tribunal has heard.

Barrister Arthur Moses SC today argued there was a public interest in releasing the material, as a prolonged freedom of information (FOI) battle reached a hearing in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) in Sydney.

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