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[Link] When confronted by his inaction on the Brereton reforms, Peter Dutton attempts to shoot the messenger
Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
Peter Dutton attempted to shoot the messenger on Thursday, branding the Guardian a trashy publication and denying he had ever hung the chief of defence out to dry on the Brereton inquiry reforms.
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[Link] SAS soldier denies colluding with Ben Roberts-Smith on evidence, defamation trial hears
Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
A serving SAS soldier has denied in court that emails between him and Ben Roberts-Smith – including marked-up pictures of a compound in Afghanistan – demonstrated they had colluded on their evidence about a mission, during which the newspaper defendants allege two civilians were murdered.
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[Link] Industry anger after Defence spends $90 million on second-hand vessel in Canary Islands
Read: 18/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Defence officials have quietly travelled to the Canary Islands to purchase a large second-hand vessel for Pacific Ocean operations, angering the local industry which was expecting the ship to be built in Western Australia.
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[Link] What is Australia's troop carrier the Bushmaster?
Read: 3/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's appeal for Australian-made armoured vehicles has been answered, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirming Bushmasters will be sent to assist the fight against Russian forces. The vehicles are designed for all environments and are blast resistant.
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[Link] Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies he is a ‘liar and a fantasist’
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A former SAS soldier who testified that Ben Roberts-Smith ordered him to stage a mock execution of a comrade during a training drill has defended himself in court against accusations he was a liar and fantasist who was trying to justify his own failures as a soldier.
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[Link] Australia’s Future Fund bans investment in Israeli defence contractor over cluster munitions allegations
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems has denied producing cluster munitions after two big investment funds banned investment in the company, saying it was involved with the weapons.
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[Link] Witness tells court he killed a Taliban fighter credited to Ben Roberts-Smith in Victoria Cross award
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
A soldier who fought alongside Ben Roberts-Smith at the battle of Tizak where Roberts-Smith won his Victoria Cross has told the federal court he killed one of the Taliban machine gunners credited to Roberts-Smith on his official VC citation.
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[Link] Roberts-Smith pressured me to lie about his affair, estranged wife tells court
Read: 14/2/2022 www.smh.com.au
The estranged wife of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has told the Federal Court she discovered her husband was having an affair when his girlfriend turned up at the couple’s Sunshine Coast home with a black eye and told her she had been pregnant with his child.
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[Link] Defence allowed to vet evidence presented to inquiry into bushfire accidentally sparked by its own helicopter
Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Department of Defence will be allowed to vet evidence presented to a coronial inquiry into the ACT's Orroral Valley bushfire, ahead of formal court hearings in July next year.
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[Link] Amnesty UK accused of ‘spreading false information’ about Northern Territory Covid outbreak
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Amnesty UK has been accused of “spreading false information” about the Northern Territory’s Covid outbreak in an extraordinary joint statement from the territory’s peak Aboriginal health organisation and Amnesty’s own Australian operation.
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