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Ben Roberts-Smith trial: soldier tells court at least two men pulled from tunnel in Afghanistan compound

Events at the compound on 12 April, 2009 have emerged as central to the defamation trial brought by Roberts-Smith

The Guardian - AU

Roberts-Smith's tunnel version disputed

A new SAS witness has contradicted Ben Roberts-Smith's assertion about there being no men found in a tunnel and later allegedly executed.

AAP

Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife tells court she hopes he ‘survives this nightmare’

Emma Roberts told the court she believed the decorated soldier was withdrawing cash from joint bank accounts and burying it in the garden

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Ex-wife of Ben Roberts-Smith denies wanting to see him lose the case and rot in jail

Under a full day of cross-examination, Emma Roberts gives evidence that she does not hate her ex-husband and denies going to court to seek revenge.

ABC News

Ex-wife labels Roberts-Smith 'Titanic'

Ben Roberts-Smith's former wife denies she is seeking revenge by giving evidence against the decorated soldier after personal text messages were read in court.

AAP

Ben Roberts-Smith told ex-wife to lie about his affair in order to keep children, court hears

Emma Roberts tells court Ben Roberts-Smith pointed to their children and said ‘if you don’t lie you will lose them’

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith's ex-wife tells court her 'life was in chaos' after war veteran's affair

Ben Roberts-Smith's ex-wife tells his defamation trial her "life was in complete chaos" after a woman turned up at their Queensland home to reveal she had been having an affair with the war veteran.

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Roberts-Smith's ex-wife details his affair

Ben Roberts-Smith's former wife has told a court of the day his girlfriend turned up at their home with a black eye and of USBs buried in their yard.

AAP

VC winner called Afghan kill most ‘beautiful thing’, court told

The Ben Roberts-Smith defamation hearing was told that the former elite soldier had shot a young Afghan man in the head and ‘blew his brains out’.

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Ben Roberts-Smith called alleged killing of unarmed Afghan teenager ‘beautiful thing’, court hears

Roberts-Smith has said in previous evidence the account of the alleged killing was ‘baseless’ and could not have happened

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Ben Roberts-Smith described alleged execution of Afghan teen as 'beautiful thing', court hears

The defamation trial for elite soldier Ben Roberts-Smith hears the Victoria Cross recipient allegedly bragged about killing an Afghan teenager in 2012, calling the shooting the "most beautiful thing I've ever seen".

ABC News

Victoria’s ‘code brown’ to end; WA records second Covid death – as it happened

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Sydney news: Federal government lists koalas as endangered in NSW, Queensland and ACT

MORNING BRIEFING: The federal government says changing koalas' status from vulnerable to endangered forms part of a plan to protect the iconic animal.

ABC News

Roberts-Smith 'boast of beautiful murder'

An SAS soldier has testified Ben Roberts-Smith bragged that blowing the brains out of a trembling and unarmed Afghan man was "the most beautiful thing".

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Former colleague denies trying to 'smear the reputation' of decorated war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith

Under cross-examination at the defamation trial, the one-time colleague of Ben Roberts-Smith rejects suggestions that he tried to "spread rubbish" about the Victoria Cross recipient, insisting he was telling the truth.

AAP

SAS witness denies BRS smear campaign

An SAS witness has denied that jealousy of Ben Roberts-Smith's medals provoked him to smear his good name to investigative journalists.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith’s barrister spoke to lawyer who then contacted Nine newspapers’ witnesses, court hears

In dramatic turn in defamation trial, former soldier seeks to be excused from giving evidence

AAP

SAS witness's 'position has changed'

A special forces soldier due to be called in media outlets' defence to a war hero's defamation claim has changed their position, a court has been told.

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SAS soldier denies being jealous of Ben Roberts-Smith and wanting to throw him ‘under a bus’, court hears

Judge in defamation case against newspapers declines to make witness answer questions about whether he was a source of media reports

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Witness tells Ben Roberts-Smith trial he drank from dead man's prosthetic leg to 'bond' with other soldiers

An elite soldier has told the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial that he used the prosthetic leg of a dead Afghan man as a drinking vessel to help him "decompress" and "bond" with fellow soldiers.

ABC News

Sydney news: Southern hemisphere's 'longest escalators' installed at Central Station

MORNING BRIEFING: Escalators up to 46m long are part of the major redevelopment of Sydney's main transport interchange.

AAP

Throwing Roberts-Smith under bus denied

Ben Roberts-Smith's lawyer has accused a witness of trying to throw the war hero under a proverbial bus after a clarification emerged in the Federal Court.

ABC News

SAS witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies punching female soldier in face at party

On his second day in the witness box in Sydney, SAS member codenamed Person 14 is accused by Ben Roberts-Smith's barrister of punching a female American soldier in the face.

ABC News

Sydney news: Police investigate shooting in city's south-west

MORNING BRIEFING: Detectives are probing a public shooting in Greenacre overnight, while in Sydney's north a hospital emergency room was evacuated due to fire.

AAP

Soldier not sure BRS shot fake leg man

A serving SAS soldier has been pressed on his own disciplinary record after testifying about an alleged war crime during a war hero's defamation trial.

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