Ben Roberts-Smith knows how to pitch himself to an audience. For years, until war crimes allegations came crashing down on him, he was a jobbing public speaker, who made his coin entrancing with tales of bravery.
Then, during his mammoth defamation lawsuit, he spent 11 days in the witness box, suited and controlled, speaking in full, audibly punctuated sentences, crammed with jargon. It was a delight for legal ears.
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