Squiz Shortcuts: The arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith
A major Australian news story broke around lunchtime on Tuesday, when the former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested at Sydney airport. He’s since been charged with 5 counts of the war crime of murder; the culmination of not only a lengthy investigation by federal authorities, but also media reports that date back even further. It’s a story that ties together our defence forces, defamation laws, some of our richest people and our history in Afghanistan… So we thought we’d take a look at what’s happened so far and what might come next.
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