Jacqui Lambie says she’s prepared to explore “every avenue possible” to hold senior military brass to account for alleged war crimes. The firebrand Tasmanian senator, who served in the army for 11 years, on Tuesday referred senior Australian Defence Force command to the International Criminal Court. She said the BreretonContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has declared Australia’s international standing remains “extraordinarily strong” after a court found three newspapers proved one of the country’s most decorated military heroes was a war criminal. Ben Roberts-Smith’s highly publicised defamation case against Nine newspapers was dismissed by Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko on Thursday after heContinue Reading
Jacqui Lambie has threatened to disrupt Senate proceedings for a fortnight as part of her campaign to obtain more information about Defence chief Angus Campbell’s fresh attempt to strip military awards from some Afghanistan war commanders. The Tasmanian independent senator pursued General Campbell over the question of how many currentContinue Reading
A former SAS soldier who testified in the defamation trial of Ben Roberts-Smith has pleaded guilty to hindering Australian Federal Police after they confronted him in a Sydney hotel. The case marks the first actions of clandestine war crime investigators – set up in the wake of allegations against someContinue Reading