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In mid-2017, whispers of executions and cover-ups within Australia's most secretive and elite military unit, the SAS, reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. He and Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal shocking truths about Ben Roberts-Smith VC but plunge the reporters into the defamation trial of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor five years, McKenzie led the investigation, waging an epic battle for the truth to be acknowledged. 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