Kerry Stokes’ gamble on Ben Roberts-Smith backfires as Seven bets on Bruce Lehrmann | Weekly Beast
The former Coalition staffer, who denies claims by Brittany Higgins, will appear on Seven’s Spotlight program on Sunday to tell ‘his side of the story’. Plus: Crikey celebrates a legal win
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Sunday night will see another battle between Nine and Seven, as 60 Minutes’ Ben Roberts-Smith exposé takes on Spotlight’s exclusive interview with Bruce Lehrmann.
The duelling current affairs shows will face off days after Seven and Nine backed different horses in the Roberts-Smith defamation trial, with Seven boss Kerry Stokes’s pick losing badly when a judge found, on the balance of probabilities, that the newspapers being sued had proven in their defence that the former SAS soldier, who Stokes said was innocent, had committed war crimes.
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