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‘Unconscionable’: UN experts slam delay in compensating alleged Afghan war crime victims
The experts also called on the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to stop celebrating disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith after a damning defamation judgment.
- by Matthew Knott
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WA governor hosts Ben Roberts-Smith as he receives medal from the King
The disgraced war criminal has been welcomed to Government House in Perth to receive the honour bestowed by King Charles III.
- by Nick McKenzie, Jesinta Burton and Holly Thompson
Editorial
Editorial
Principles of open justice demand our right to know
Journalists spend much of their time fighting for information to which they should rightfully be allowed access.
AFR to cut print in WA after Seven’s ‘abuse of power’
The Australian Financial Review will no longer have a physical edition in Perth after Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media doubled the cost of printing the newspaper.
- by Colin Kruger
Opinion
Defamation
What the Lehrmann case means for the future of defamation law in Australia
There is little doubt that lawyers do well in defamation cases. But you rarely find a plaintiff who, at the end of the trial, believes they made the right move in suing.
- by Peter Bartlett
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Defamation
The squalor of buying a scoop undermines good journalism
The ever-growing cluster of self-immolation surrounding the Lehrmann case has now remorselessly spread to journalism, thrusting it into the unaccustomed role of guilty bystander while besmirching a profession vitally important to a fairer society.
- The Herald's View
Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie nominated for journalist of the year award
McClymont and McKenzie have been nominated for the Graham Perkin Australian journalist of the year award for their work on major investigations over the past year.
Roberts-Smith’s barrister cautions court against ‘amateur sleuthing’
The war veteran’s high-stakes defamation appeal drew to a close on Friday, as his barrister urged a court to overturn a decision finding he was complicit in four murders.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
‘Event of startling gravity’: Newspapers back SAS soldier’s account of execution
The newspapers defending former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal say one of their key witnesses gave truthful evidence about a murder.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Judges urged to ignore ‘attack’ on Afghans who gave evidence of Roberts-Smith murder
The witnesses – who detailed the killing of villager Ali Jan by Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith – should be believed, despite efforts by the disgraced soldier’s legal team to undermine their credibility, a court has been told.
- by David Estcourt
Witnesses to murder by Roberts-Smith gave strikingly similar accounts, appeal told
The barrister acting for the newspapers has told the former soldier’s appeal there were only minor differences in the evidence of witnesses about the death of an Afghan prisoner with a prosthetic leg.
- by David Estcourt