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SMH · Paul Sakkal · Monday 25 May 2026

Coalition discovers the stopwatch

Michaelia Cash questions why charges against Ben Roberts-Smith came together quickly while the ISIS brides decision took three weeks.

Cash wants to know why the AFP moved fast on Roberts-Smith and slow on the returning brides — as if the answer isn't that one case had a Federal Court judgment sitting on the desk and the other didn't. The Coalition's discovered prosecutorial timelines are a wonderful thing when you've got nothing else to say at the dispatch box.

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