Ben Roberts-Smith: The breaking of a plaster saint : vimarsa

Ben Roberts-Smith was meant to be a poster boy of the regiment that served in Afghanistan. But the recent defamation case cracked the image of a plaster saint, writes Binoy Kampmark.

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