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Reporting for Duty Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie
in conversation with Kate McClymont

30 July 2023

In the Playhouse

Talks and Ideas

Join us as we speak to Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie, the two investigative journalists who, acting on concerns of serving soldiers, revealed war crimes committed in Afghanistan by a small number of elite Australian soldiers, principally Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith.

Unpacking the defamation trial of the century

We will hear how these journalists were forced to defend their reporting - and their reputations - in court and, in the process, defend Australia’s right to know what is done in our name. What are the implications of the war crimes themselves and what do the actions of these soldiers mean for Australia’s armed services and its defence allies? How do these revelations about one of Australia’s most famous and awarded soldiers challenge the image Australia has carried of itself ever since Gallipoli, as a nation defined by the heroic returned soldier? Will this shameful episode lead to a reckoning in our national story? 

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