Major General Hocking News Today

In an idle moment in April, between his appearances in the Federal Court, Person 35 – a former SAS comrade of Ben Roberts-Smith who had been called to testify on his friend’s behalf – scrolled through Instagram. There he found and liked a meme, featuring a woman dusted with cocaine and labelled “SAS whistleblowers” and a smiling man labelled “Fairfax Media”. Beneath were these words:   

A review of Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan questions whether soldiers’ deaths helped strategic outcomes and calls for ongoing royal commission-like powers to prevent misconduct.