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Ben Roberts-Smith’s year-long defamation trial against three newspapers concludes

Ex-soldier’s barrister tells court that reporters ‘jumped on rumours’, while newspapers’ counsel alleges Roberts-Smith ‘prepared to lie under oath’

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial concludes with judge's verdict likely months away

The marathon defamation trial brought on by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith concludes after his lawyer tells a Sydney court he is the victim of a "war of words" by bitter, jealous ex-colleagues who fed lies to journalists.

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Sydney news: NSW police renew appeal for information in Canterbury Alsehli sister deaths

MORNING BRIEFING: Police are renewing their appeal for information into the mysterious deaths of two sisters, who were found in separate rooms inside a south-west Sydney unit last month.

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Defence force documents disprove allegation Ben Roberts-Smith killed teenager in Afghanistan, defamation trial hears

Former soldier’s lawyer says defence documents show teenager was released unharmed but newspapers say they are not accurate

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Evidence of Afghan witnesses against Ben Roberts-Smith ‘hardly neutral’, lawyer tells court

Lawyers for Ben Roberts-Smith urge Justice Besanko to disregard evidence of Afghan witnesses, saying the men were prejudiced against Australian soldiers

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Roberts-Smith alleged kick due to 'laugh'

The motivation for Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly kicking an unarmed Afghan prisoner off a cliff was because he laughed at him, the Federal Court has been told.

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Roberts-Smith's lawyer says witnesses lied

Ben Roberts-Smith's lawyer says evidence given against him had not established any of the grave allegations made by the newspapers he is suing for defamation.

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‘Fanciful, nonsense’: case against Ben Roberts-Smith ‘based on conjecture’, lawyer tells defamation trial

Former soldier’s barrister says newspapers accusing him of murders while part of SAS ‘failed to establish any motive’ and the case is ‘an embarrassment’

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Ben Roberts-Smith legal counsel says witnesses who gave evidence against the war veteran are liars

Witnesses against Ben Roberts-Smith in his long-running defamation case are "liars, perjurers and gossips", a barrister tells the Federal Court in his closing address.

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Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly attempted to ‘intimidate’ witnesses, lawyers for newspapers tell defamation trial

In closing submissions newspapers’ counsel claims alleged actions are forceful indicators of Roberts-Smith’s ‘consciousness of guilt’

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Roberts-Smith's victim 'most impressive'

A serving SAS soldier savagely bullied by Ben Roberts-Smith is one of the most impressive witnesses to be called at the defamation trial, a judge has heard.

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Morning mail: child Covid fine revelations in NSW, final two in Tory leadership contest, polenta aplenty

Thursday: investigation reveals NSW government suggested children as young as 10 could work off fines of about $1,000. Plus: Novak Djokovic likely to be barred from US Open

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Ben Roberts-Smith ‘prepared to lie under oath’, newspapers’ lawyer tells defamation trial

Barrister for newspapers tells court former soldier was either an ‘architect or knowing beneficiary of … dishonest collusion’, in closing submissions

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Ben Roberts-Smith prepared to 'lie under oath', judge told in defamation trial

Ben Roberts-Smith and four of his witnesses gave "wholly implausible" evidence about one alleged war crime and "seriously damaged" his credibility, a judge hears.

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Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial hears Australian SAS soldiers ‘turned a blind eye’ to alleged war crimes

In closing submissions, newspapers’ lawyer accuses several of Roberts-Smith’s witnesses of ‘outright dishonesty’

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SAS soldiers ignored 'despicable crimes'

SAS soldiers who eventually testified against Ben Roberts-Smith were willing to turn a blind eye to alleged crimes due to a code of silence, a judge has heard.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial told SAS ignored 'breaches of the laws of war'

A barrister for Nine Entertainment tells the Federal Court that SAS soldiers "were willing to turn a blind eye" over allegations two Afghan men were executed during a mission in 2009.

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Ben Roberts-Smith was targeted after being awarded Victoria Cross, his barrister tells court

Closing submissions begin in the former SAS soldier’s long-running defamation trial against three newspapers

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'Someone is lying' in Roberts-Smith case

Closing submissions have begun in the defamation trial launched by Ben Roberts-Smith, describing a sustained media campaign to discredit an exceptional soldier.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial begins hearing closing submissions after 100 days of testimony

Ben Roberts-Smith's barrister tells a judge the war veteran was an exceptional soldier who was subject to a sustained campaign from newspapers to create a belief he was a war criminal.

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Sydney news: Spike in NSW house fire-related deaths preventable, says Fire and Rescue

MORNING BRIEFING: Ten people have died and 40 people have been injured in fire-related deaths with winter only at the halfway mark.

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Ben Roberts-Smith: a war hero’s reputation at stake in Australia’s defamation ‘trial of the century’

Extraordinary evidence has been heard over 99 days of hearings, at a cost of A$25m, as the Victoria Cross recipient sues three newspapers over allegations he says falsely portray him as a war criminal for actions in Afghanistan

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Senior SAS officer tells defamation trial he ‘couldn’t speculate’ if Ben Roberts-Smith complicit in alleged Afghan murders

Person 81 tells court he did not observe any conduct by Roberts-Smith and two other soldiers that caused him suspicion they had murdered anyone

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Final witness in Ben-Roberts-Smith trial says he has no knowledge of how two Afghan men died

The final witness in the long-running Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case, a senior SAS member, says he never had any personal knowledge of how two Afghan men were killed in a Taliban compound.

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Senior SAS officer contradicts previous witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial

Person 81, the troop commander during event central to the trial, says he was not informed of any insurgents killed at the time

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