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In the federal court of Australia the judge dismissed the Victoria Cross recipient’s case against three newspapers who accused him of war crimes

Not only is it high stakes between Australia’s largest media companies but experts say this case will likely affect future public interest stories

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.

Federal MP Andrew Hastie tells a Sydney court he "pities" war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith, who is suing the publisher of several newspapers for defamation.

As the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial entered a seventh week for this year, the Federal Court heard off-the-record conversations from an SAS soldier revealed as a key source for two journalists.

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.

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

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.