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Who are Ben Roberts-Smith’s handlers?

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
October 27, 2026 • 05:38 AM
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The alleged war criminal’s new PR support shares an association with another of Perth’s favourite sons.

Who are Ben Roberts-Smith’s handlers?

Consider us intrigued when News24 host Andrew Bolt went on a recent tear about Ben Roberts-Smith ’s redemption tour by teasing an email he’d received from one of the country’s “top lobbying companies”.

These unnamed lobbyists were working behind the scenes to line up media appearances for the country’s most famous alleged war criminal. Unlike some of his one-eyed colleagues, Bolt was frightfully unimpressed.

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