Another front in the culture wars opened up this week with the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith on five counts of war crime murder. I suppose you could say the pencil that drew the line on the map had been in the sharpener since the former SAS soldier calamitous defamation action. This piece is not a rumination about his guilt, innocence or otherwise. It’s c…
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