MICHAEL BLEBY: Australia finds itself on trial as the fog of war clears
A cultural war has been waging over the prosecution of crimes in Afghanistan
13 June 2023 - 05:00
After a decorated Australian soldier — a good-looking bloke, the sort of guy a lot of influential men want to believe in — gets called out by a judge as a murderer, liar and war criminal, the country faces a time of soul-searching.
As well it might. For what the federal court found was true about Ben Roberts-Smith was horrible...
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