What should the Australian War Memorial do with its heroic portraits of Ben Roberts-Smith?
- Written by Kit Messham-Muir, Professor in Art, Curtin University
On Friday, the Federal Court dismissed Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.
Justice Anthony Besanko ruled the newspapers had established, by the “balance of probabilities” (the standard of evidence in a civil lawsuit), that Roberts-Smith had committed war crimes.
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