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Truth, lies and the long road to exposing an Australian ‘hero’
Seven years after Chris Masters first heard the whispers about what Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith did in Afghanistan, he’s not sure what he’d do if he heard them again.
“I’d probably ring Nick McKenzie and say, ‘I’ve got a good story for you, mate. I’m gonna go kayaking’,” the 75-year-old veteran says with a small and hard-won laugh.
- Karl Quinn
- Brisbane Times
The collaboration between the two journalists led to a series of explosive stories about Afghan prisoners of war being executed in cold blood by SAS corporal Roberts-Smith or by soldiers under his command.
In the Fairfax (later Nine) outlets, on 60 Minutes, and ultimately in the…