Politics‘I don’t want to be here’: Andrew Hastie was a reluctant but ‘straightforward’ witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case
Liberal MP and former SAS soldier Andrew Hastie was compelled by subpoena to testify in Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed 2022 defamation case. The judge described Hastie as honest and straightforward, while Pauline Hanson’s One Nation attacked him online as a “gutless maggot” and “traitor”.
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‘I don’t want to be here’: Andrew Hastie was a reluctant but ‘straightforward’ witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case
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