From war hero to war criminal: One man’s fate is breaking a country’s politics in half

For the Australian right, Ben Roberts-Smith is a beacon of virtue. For the left, he is a murderer. Both will use him as a culture-war grunt. Last week Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most highly decorated war hero, was arrested by federal police and charged with having committed war crimes in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012. Roberts-Smith […]