‘I don’t want to be here’: Andrew Hastie was a reluctant but ‘straightforward’ witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case
The Liberal MP and former SAS soldier is under attack from One Nation after complying with a subpoena to give evidence in the failed 2022 civil case “I don’t dislike Mr Roberts-Smith at all. I pity Mr Roberts-Smith. I pity this whole process. I don’t want to be here.” Andrew Hastie was a reluctant witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case. Hastie appeared only under force of subpoena in 2022: compelled to attend court, obliged to swear an oath, and to tell “the whole truth and nothing…
The Guardian
Published by CurrentWire · First coverage
Compiled by CurrentWire News Desk
Summary based on reporting from The Guardian.
In this story
Automated coverage analysis
Generated automatically from the coverage listed on this page. CurrentWire adds no editorial claims.
Coverage
1 publication is covering this story.
How CurrentWire compiled this story
The Guardian (www.theguardian.com), a Tier B publisher, filed this report on . CurrentWire published this page 24 minutes later, on .
Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 61.2 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 29.7 of 35
- Source authority
- 14 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 4 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 3.5 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 0 of 5
Strongest signal: story prominence, 10 of 10. How each signal is calculated.
Filed under General · International · News. Topics extracted from this report, with other live CurrentWire stories mentioning each: Andrew Hastie (1), Ben Roberts-Smith (none).
CurrentWire is a news discovery platform. This page summarizes and links to original reporting; full articles, imagery and copyright remain with the publishers listed above.