The Australian War Memorial covering itself in more shame. Got caught rigging its own prize for military history writing rather than award it to a book about Roberts-Smith and his crimes and the coverup (and the AWMs involvement in the latter)
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Court refuses to grant channel 9 a 50 year suppression order. Apparently Nick McKenzie may have reported stuff unethically. Large settlement given to an alleged victim.
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That Nick McKenzie? The one being heiled as a great reporter in other threads?
Yep, that one
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I see what you did there…
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Is the payout 15-30 billion dollars?
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wait for the royal commission bucko
If McKenzie told me he had two legs, I’d count them.
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Followed by kicking each, to be sure.
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Who woulda thunk this turd was unethical?
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From ‘The Age’ just now …
Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested in relation to multiple counts of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners in what looms as the most significant war crimes prosecution in Australian history.
Roberts-Smith, 47, was arrested at Sydney Airport after arriving on a flight from Brisbane on Tuesday morning. Australian Federal Police officers were seen waiting at the arrivals gate for QF515 when it arrived just after 11am.
The AFP will hold a media conference on the arrest at 12:15pm on Tuesday.
The arrest of the decorated former special forces soldier comes after a five-year investigation secured the co-operation of SAS eyewitnesses who are expected to allege that Roberts-Smith himself executed, and directed junior soldiers to execute, at least half a dozen defenceless detainees during his time in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2012.
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Prepare for an avalanche of One Nation / boomer uncle / Albo is a traitor posts on the socials.
One wonders why it has taken this long to start the process of jailing this disgraced ■■■■.
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Hooray.
High time.
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Glad they’re giving it the full charge for all of them, not just the ones where he was the trigger man.
Hold up: 5 charges?
Is there more to come?
Did he try to take the prosthetic leg on as carry on?
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I think you’re going out on a limb there.
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It’s always the people you suspect the most
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