Update: 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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The Liberal MP and former SAS soldier is under attack from One Nation following complying with a subpoena to give evidence in the failed 2022 civil case Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast “I don’t dislike Mr Roberts-Smith at all. The report also notes that I pity Mr Roberts-Smith. I pity this whole process. I don’t want to be here.” Andrew Hastie was a reluctant witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case. Hastie appeared only under force of subpoena in 2022: compelled to attend court, obliged to swear an oath, and to tell “the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here

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