Lisa Jones wrote on Sep 13
th, 2022 at 7:08pm:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Roberts-SmithMeet his dad 😳
Major General Leonard William Roberts-Smith, RFD, QC (born 25 October 1946) is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. From February 2005, he was one of the inaugural Judges of the Court of Appeal Division, having been first appointed to the Supreme Court on 6 November 2000. From May 2007, he served as Commissioner of the Corruption and Crime Commission of Western Australia, having been appointed for a five-year term. He retired on 31 January 2011.
Roberts-Smith joined the Australian Army Reserve in 1964, being commissioned as a second lieutenant (Royal Australian Infantry) in 1969. When he moved to Port Moresby in 1970, Roberts-Smith transferred to the Australian Army Legal Corps as a reservist with the rank of captain. During his time in Papua New Guinea, he was promoted to major. In 1985, he was appointed as a judge advocate and a defence force magistrate. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1986 and colonel in June 1994. On 6 June 2002, Roberts-Smith was appointed Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Australian Defence Force and was promoted to major general, having been acting in the position since 3 October 2001. As JAG, Roberts-Smith was responsible for reporting annually to Parliament on the operation of the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 and any other Commonwealth or Australian Capital Territory law relating to the discipline of the Defence Force. He was also responsible for making procedural rules for Service tribunals, providing the final legal review of proceedings with the Defence Force, and participating in the appointment of Judge Advocates, Defence Force Magistrates, Presidents and members of the courts martial. His appointment to the substantive position was for a three-year term. In 2005, he was reappointed by the Governor-General of Australia for a further two years.
On 26 November 2012 the Australian Government Minister for Defence, Stephen Smith, announced that Roberts-Smith had been appointed chair of an independent Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART), to deal with individual complaints of sexual and other abuse in the Australian Defence Force.
Yes, and I imagine his Dad is one of the reasons he is still.....ummm...........not yet facing a Court Martial. That may come, still.
The Army/Military is always going to be very slow and loathe to take any action against a VC winner for obvious reasons, but when that VC winner has an Old Man holding such a high position in the Army....that is also a 'road block.' Not an impenetrable one, but...a road block.
I understand that another reason things are seemingly going very slowly as is that...as has been implied by someone up there ^^^^^^......up the chain of command, there are some very nervous people who now hold
VERY senior positions and who, at the relevant time, were real time players in it all.
Still, all that is pretty much beside the point I am making. BRS should have politely declined the invitation.
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