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Ben Roberts-Smith to lodge almost $1m with court to continue war crimes defamation appeal

Australia’s most decorated living soldier will need to pay $910,000 to the federal court in Sydney to cover legal costs in the event he loses action

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: court win for traditional owners over Woodside; crew returns after a year stuck in space; and Brisbane buzzing ahead of finals

Federal court judge throws out fossil fuel giant’s $16.5bn Scarborough gas development plan

The Guardian - AU

Police officer’s Bali holiday selfie with Ben Roberts-Smith and Zachary Rolfe leads to questions from Queensland force

Exclusive: Queensland police say ‘inquiries will be made’ in response to questions about whether post complies with force’s social media guidelines

The Guardian - AU

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'Corruption' of Roberts-Smith war crimes probe avoided

Ben Roberts-Smith's bid to limit defamation evidence viewed by war crime investigators will prevent the contamination of their probe, a court has heard.

AAP

Ben Roberts-Smith fights war crime investigators’ push to access sensitive court files

Push to access restricted files comes as government confirms there are 33 active investigations into alleged criminal offences by Australian soldiers

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Chalmers warns of ‘bumpy’ economy, call to investigate possible burial sites, trans therapy ‘life-saving’

Treasurer says a soft landing is not assured as Australia faces global headwinds, and a new study shows the benefits of testosterone therapy

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial installs new plaque acknowledging Ben Roberts-Smith ‘complicit in unlawful killings’

Move criticised as inadequate, with Australian Centre for International Justice saying it minimised gravity of allegations

The Guardian - AU

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case ‘based on a lie’ as he knew allegations were true, court told

Newspapers have argued Roberts-Smith should not have brought his defamation case and should pay costs from when he first sued

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith: judge won’t make documents decision in war crimes probe due to bias perception

Justice Anthony Besanko recuses himself from court decision relating to war crimes investigation into Australian veteran

The Guardian - AU

Who’ll watch out for kids in Qld watch houses?

Under youth justice law changes in Queensland, ‘boars — male pigs — will have better welfare protections than children as young as 10’, and Australians pay $65 billion a year to subsidise fossil-fuel polluters.

Crikey

Ben Roberts-Smith appeal to be heard in February with a repeat of elaborate security of defamation trial

Preliminary hearing has been told of extraordinary security procedures required for the appeal which has been set down for 10 days

The Guardian - AU

Catharsis, courage, a tribal media and lingering questions: two investigative journalists give their accounts of the Ben Roberts-Smith story

To trace the spectacular fall from grace of Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, VC, you may face a dilemma – which newly released book to read?

The Conversation

Kerry Stokes and Seven ordered to hand over thousands of emails exchanged with Ben-Roberts Smith’s legal team

Nine newspapers subpoenaed the correspondence to argue Seven influenced defamation proceedings and should be liable for costs

The Guardian - AU

The story behind the stories of a soldier and an 'epic case'

'I'm inclined to think it's more about truth than it is about war crimes.'

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Crikey

Ben Roberts-Smith’s War Memorial display must acknowledge his crimes, or be torn down altogether

A ‘war hero’ who has disgraced his country and his fellow soldiers should not be honoured in the Australian War Memorial, Crikey readers say.

The Canberra Times

'It would absolutely be spiked': The explosive book that almost never was

Nick McKenzie shares what happened behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines.

AAP

Financiers seek to narrow Roberts-Smith costs claim

Companies that backed disgraced veteran Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation lawsuits against media outlets want the scope of documents to assess costs narrowed.

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Taking care of business

Synergy 360’s David Milo, a close mate of Coalition minister Stuart Robert, gave confidential defence documents to his firm that he got while working at big four consultancy Deloitte, and Peta Credlin, chief of staff to a former PM, Tony Abbott, says the Libs should target ‘struggle street’.

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‘As a veteran my PTSD has been triggered’: War Memorial’s Ben Roberts-Smith fallout

Emails obtained in an FOI request show how the Australian War Memorial braced for a backlash for keeping the disgraced soldier’s display up.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: RBA cuts number of meetings; wastewater exposes cities’ drug habits; and an algorithm creates the ‘best’ expletive ever

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says the change will allow more time to examine key issues in detail

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith appeal: former soldier argues judge ‘cherrypicked’ evidence in defamation decision

Roberts-Smith is appealing federal court verdict which found, on the balance of probabilities, he was complicit in four murders in Afghanistan

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Closing the Gap report shows ‘why we need a voice’, robodebt raised in Fadden fight, EU trade talks stall

Latest report shows four key targets for Indigenous outcomes are missed, as Labor highlights Stuart Robert’s links to welfare scandal in lead-up to Saturday’s byelection

The Independent UK

Australian war hero appeals court decision that blamed him for unlawful killings in Afghanistan

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lodged an appeal against a civil court ruling that blamed him for the unlawful killings of four Afghans

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Ben Roberts-Smith appeals defamation ruling; Clare Nowland’s family sues NSW government; and abortion pill access made easier

The former SAS soldier filed his appeal this afternoon, two days before the deadline

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith to appeal after defamation case was dismissed by federal court

Ex-soldier lost case against three newspapers in June with trial judge finding they had proven on the balance of probabilities that Roberts-Smith murdered unarmed civilians in Afghanistan

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