Shadow attorney-general defends decision to allow staffer to write article praising Roberts-Smith

A senior Coalition frontbencher has defended her decision to allow a senior adviser to write a newspaper article urging Australians not to “walk away” from Ben Roberts-Smith, exposing tensions inside the opposition over how to respond to the Victoria Cross recipient’s looming war crimes trial.

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