{"id":218227,"date":"2025-05-16T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=218227"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:30:58","slug":"ben-roberts-smith-has-lost-his-appeal-against-a-defamation-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=218227","title":{"rendered":"Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his appeal against a defamation ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his appeal against a defamation ruling that found, on the balance of probabilities, that he was complicit in the killing of unarmed prisoners in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was found to be a war criminal and murderer. It has been funded by Kerry Stokes. Will likely be appealed to the High Court of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Victoria Cross recipient had previously lost his case against reporting done by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and journalist Nick McKenzie.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-16_133040119-1024x633.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-16_133040119-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-16_133040119-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-16_133040119-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-16_133040119.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Roberts-Smith must now pay costs to Nine Newspapers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberts-Smith must now pay costs to Nine Newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":218228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,1],"tags":[14615,16758],"class_list":["post-218227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-uncategorized","tag-abc-australia","tag-ben-roberts-smith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218232,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218227\/revisions\/218232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}