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Brereton report

September 2024

  • Pages of the Brereton report

    Australian military officers to be stripped of honours after alleged war crimes under their command

    Government acts on longstanding recommendations from Brereton inquiry into ADF conduct in Afghanistan

May 2024

  • An Afghanistan exhibit at the Australian War Memorial

    Australian soldiers ‘thrown under the bus’ over alleged Afghanistan war crimes, SAS body says

    After report found senior officers should take some responsibility, Australian SAS Association chair says ‘finally’ the finger is being pointed at ministers and generals

September 2023

  • Painting of Ben Robert-Smith

    Australian War Memorial installs new plaque acknowledging Ben Roberts-Smith ‘complicit in unlawful killings’

    Move criticised as inadequate, with Australian Centre for International Justice saying it minimised gravity of allegations

August 2023

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton during question time in the house of representatives

    Dutton was briefed five times on US-Australia talks over impact of war crimes allegations on alliance

    Exclusive: Documents show officials raised concerns SAS might be mentioned in US state department’s human rights report

June 2023

  • Senator Jacqui Lambie makes a statement about Australian war crimes in the Senate

    Jacqui Lambie asks ICC to investigate Australian military commanders for alleged war crimes

  • Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the federal court in April  2022.

    Australian federal police abandon two alleged murder investigations into Ben Roberts-Smith

  • Silhouette of a soldier

    US reviewed defence training ties with Australia after Brereton inquiry into alleged war crimes

  • Australia's defence chief Gen Angus Campbell

    Australia’s military will emerge stronger after ‘confronting’ war crime inquiry, defence chief says

  • Australian military must hold hard to its moral compass to restore trust of people

    Chris Barrie
  • Nine newspapers’ truth defence put the focus on Ben Roberts-Smith’s reputation. It worked

    David Rolph
  • As the Ben Roberts-Smith case proves, it’s time for Australia to abandon our farcical Anzac myths

    Paul Daley

May 2023

  • Chief of the Australian Defence Force, Gen Angus Campbell, speaks during Senate Estimates

    ADF chief tells Senate estimates he reviewed his own performance commanding troops in Afghanistan

  • Ben Roberts-Smith leaves the federal court in Sydney during his defamation case

    Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes defamation verdict to be delivered on Thursday 1 June

April 2023

  • Angus Campbell

    Australian defence chief warns further criminal charges could be laid over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan

  • Silhouette of soldier

    Culture of Australian special forces to be regularly reviewed in wake of Brereton inquiry, report reveals

February 2023

  • Angus Campbell

    ADF taking too long to enact reforms after Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, watchdog warns

    Exclusive: Report reveals oversight panel appealed to chief of ADF and chief of army to act with ‘a sense of urgency’
  • Chris Moraitis, the director general of the Office of the Special Investigator

    Investigators of alleged war crimes by Australians in Afghanistan set to hand over first brief of evidence

    The Office of the Special Investigator is looking at between 40 and 50 alleged offences, Senate estimates hears
  • Kieran Pender

    It is not in the public interest to jail people for telling the truth. Labor must end these whistleblower cases

    Kieran Pender
    If these brave people are punished for doing the right thing, it will cloud the Albanese government’s legacy

December 2022

  • Lt Gen Greg Bilton  addressing a press conference

    Australian defence force members warned they face prosecution if they plant weapons on people killed in combat

  • SAS soldiers at a base in Western Australia

    Secret report warns of morale and mental health issues among Australia’s elite soldiers

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