Good morning. The federal election campaigns continue today, and the first members of the Australian Commonwealth Games teams are to be announced.
A former Australian SAS soldier, anonymised before the court as Person 5, alleged by three newspapers to have ordered the execution of an unarmed elderly man in Afghanistan, will be the first witness-in-reply called by Ben Roberts-Smith in his war crimes defamation trial. Person 5, a former SAS patrol commander, was part of a raid on a compound known as Whiskey 108 in the village of Kakarak in Uruzgan. The former soldier has been accused of ordering the execution of an unarmed elderly man, which three newspapers allege Roberts-Smith did nothing to stop.
