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Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation trial of the century all boiled down to the question of who was lying

Ben Roberts-Smith's loss is seen as a major win for Australian investigative journalism, with the Federal Court finding in favour of the substantial truth in the news articles about him.

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Ben Roberts-Smith has been dealt a crushing blow. The full fallout is yet to come

Australia’s most decorated living soldier has had his defamation case dismissed, but questions remain over his future

The Guardian - AU

Australian decorated hero quits corporate job after Afghanistan war crime revelations

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has quit his corporate job after a civil court blamed the national hero for unlawfully killing four Afghans and escalated calls for him to be stripped of his revered Victoria Cross medal

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Disgraced SAS Soldier Ben Roberts-Smith Has Quit Channel 7 After A Judge Branded Him A War Criminal

Ben Roberts-Smith was farewelled quite sadly by Channel 7 execs after stepped down from his role, despite being a war criminal.

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Ben Roberts-Smith quits Seven Network management role

Former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has quit his job at the Seven Network amid the fallout from Thursday's landmark Federal Court ruling.

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Dutton says Ben Roberts-Smith ruling a 'tough day for our country', while Taliban claims foreign forces carried out 'uncountable crimes'

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the court ruling against decorated war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith was a "tough day for the country" and believes there has been a "significant culture change" at the Australian Defence Force.

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From 'Australian hero' to 'disgracing' his country — Ben Roberts-Smith's fall from grace

Once a hero to politicians and civilians alike, a court found the 44-year-old's reputation is now so lowered that two unproven allegations of battlefield murder weren't enough to defame him.

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Ben Roberts-Smith resigns from Seven as war crimes judgement reverberates around globe

Ben Roberts-Smith resigns from his job at Seven West Media, as the company's billionaire chairman Kerry Stokes says the imputations found to be true in yesterday's crushing court judgement do "not accord with the man I know".

ABC News

Ben Roberts-Smith: will more Afghanistan war crimes trials follow?

Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost a defamation case against newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan in a landmark ruling with widespread implications for future criminal trials.

The Week

Australia’s most decorated living soldier committed war crimes, judge rules in defamation case

Victoria Cross recipient loses civil defamation case as judge finds a number of murder allegations by newspapers ‘substantially true’

The Independent UK

The man who wasn’t there: Ben Roberts-Smith misses his day of reckoning

On the day a judge ruled the Victoria Cross winner had lost his defamation case and been proven to be a war criminal, Roberts-Smith didn’t turn up to court

The Guardian - AU

SAS: Who Dares Wins 'axed' by Channel 4 after eight series

It's been reported that SAS: Who Dares Wins has been brought to an end by Channel 4, though Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is set to continue.

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Afghan war veteran 'shot prisoner dead and kept prosthetic leg to drink beer'

A federal court judge found that articles published claiming that Ben Roberts-Smith had unlawfully killed Afghan prisoners and "bullied and harassed" Afghan civilians were "substantially true"

Daily Mirror

Ben Roberts-Smith defamation loss bad news for Seven boss as Nine marks ‘day of justice’

Seven chairman Kerry Stokes, who parachuted the former soldier into a network job in 2015, says ‘the judgment does not accord with the man I know’

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Airline to sell tickets for electric plane flights – with departures from 2028

Plans are ‘the next major milestone in the future of aviation’, according to boss of European carrier

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Ben Roberts-Smith: Australia’s most decorated living soldier loses war crimes defamation case

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost a defamation case in which three newspapers accused him of committing war crimes in Afghanistan.

The Conversation

'Dismissed': legal experts explain the judgment in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case

Today, Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his long-awaited judgment in the defamation case that Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living former SAS soldier, brought against the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times.

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What did Ben Roberts-Smith do? This is what his civil case found

Justice Anthony Besanko's full reasons for his judgement are yet to be released, but today he outlined the serious allegations Nine's lawyers had proved the "substantial truth" of.

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Australia's most decorated soldier loses defamation case for alleged war crimes

An Australian federal court judge ruled that newspaper articles published in 2018 were substantially true about a number of war crimes committed by Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Australian judge rules in civil court war crime allegations against hero soldier proved

A judge in a civil case says a decorated Australian veteran unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan

Reuters

Former Australian SAS veteran loses defamation case over reports of Afghan execution

One of Australia's most decorated soldiers lost a defamation lawsuit against three newspapers that accused him of involvement in the murder of six Afghans while on deployment, a stunning end to a case that lifted the veil of secrecy over the elite SAS.

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Ben Roberts-Smith loses mammoth defamation battle against newspapers, reporters

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith's decision to sue the publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, and three journalists, in the Federal Court over a series of articles published in 2018 backfires.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation case, with judge finding former SAS soldier committed war crimes

Justice Anthony Besanko found newspapers established substantial or contextual truth of allegations of murders of unarmed civilians in Afghanistan

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Ben Roberts-Smith judgment day, AI ban considered, Maroons’ Origin stunner

SAS soldier will learn verdict in defamation case against three newspapers this afternoon; Labor to consider outlawing certain types of AI

ABC News

Decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith to learn fate today, five years after launching defamation battle

The Victoria Cross recipient sued the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times and three journalists in the Federal Court over a series of articles published in 2018. Today Justice Anthony Besanko will deliver his judgement.

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