Hastie’s Testimony Shatters Loyalty | Sydney News

Former SAS soldier and Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, once a staunch admirer of Ben Roberts-Smith, now faces fierce backlash after testifying in his defamation case — calling him a “gutless maggot” and “traitor” in a viral One Nation cartoon, with Pauline Hanson reportedly calling him a “wanker.” Hastie’s courtroom testimony revealed a stark shift: he described Roberts-Smith as a bully who allegedly ordered the execution of an unarmed prisoner in Afghanistan — an account that, while unproven as a war crime, left Hastie no longer proud of his former comrade. As Roberts-Smith fights criminal charges for five alleged murders, Hastie’s damning witness st...