Last month Ben Roberts-Smith lost one of the biggest defamation trials in Australian history and was found to be a war criminal to a civil standard. The judge ruled that the stories Nick McKenzie had published in Nine Newspapers in 2017 and 2018 about the Victoria Cross winning SAS soldier were substantially true.

Nick McKenzie joins us to talk about it all, his new book is called Crossing the Line.

 

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• Bombshell development in William Tyrrell case
• Lewis Capaldi forced to cancel tour
• No foul play found in Jeffrey Epstein's death 

 

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