Hosted by Sam Bamford, a former Australian Army infantry paratrooper and combat veteran with a deployment to Afghanistan in 2012, the 2 Worlds Collide Podcast has evolved into one of Australia’s most outspoken independent platforms. In this must-see episode, Special Forces Operator Scott Jones recounts his first-hand experiences near and alongside Ben Roberts-Smith. Be prepared to be astonished.
As one YouTube viewer says, “This is the most important interview in Australia right now.”
Scott Jones
Read the judgments (first instance and appeal).
This is pollution of fact.
I note the comment of Steven Fennell
“If you care about truth over headlines, watch the full episode. Ben Roberts-Smith — Victoria Cross recipient and one of our most decorated soldiers deserves to be judged by those who were actually there, not by journalists chasing Walkleys or prosecutors chasing scalps years later. The process has already been the punishment. Scott Jones just made the case for why it should end.”
While his article is interesting that paragraph is in my opinion all that was needed
Special Forces Operator Scott Jones Drops Bombshells – The Raw Truth About Ben Roberts-Smith
While the mainstream media and prosecutors continue their crusade, an unfiltered voice from inside the Special Forces world has cut through the noise. In a powerful new episode of the 2 Worlds Collide Podcast, former operator Scott Jones. Scott Jones who served in the same theatre and operated near Roberts-Smith. Scott Jones now delivers a ground-level, no-holds-barred account that directly challenges the dominant narrative.
Jones doesn’t sugar-coat the brutality of combat in Afghanistan’s “Valley of the Martyrs,” where elite Taliban fighters operated and civilians were often indistinguishable from insurgents. He dismantles key allegations head-on: the so-called “cliff” at Darwan was no sheer drop but a modest slope (he has photos from the site taken shortly after). He highlights contradictions in witness statements buried in court documents , accounts that didn’t make the sensational headlines, and questions how some witnesses were discredited while others with shaky credibility were elevated.
Crucially, Jones exposes the gulf between armchair moralising back home and the split-second realities faced by operators under Rules of Engagement that authorised lethal force. He unpacks the 21 witnesses, media spin (especially Channel 9 and Nick McKenzie), and why many veterans are furious at the retrospective judgment being applied to men who were sent to do the nation’s dirty work.
This isn’t blind loyalty , Jones makes clear he’s not defending indiscriminate murder. It’s a veteran calling out what looks like selective prosecution, media contamination, and a failure to grasp the fog of war. As one listener put it, this may be “the most important interview in Australia right now.”
If you care about truth over headlines, watch the full episode. Ben Roberts-Smith — Victoria Cross recipient and one of our most decorated soldiers deserves to be judged by those who were actually there, not by journalists chasing Walkleys or prosecutors chasing scalps years later. The process has already been the punishment. Scott Jones just made the case for why it should end.
But the stench of manufactured outrage just got a whole lot worse. Fresh revelations have blown the lid off Nine Entertainment’s desperate tactics: the network secretly paid one of its own key witnesses “Person 17”, Roberts-Smith’s former mistress who gave damning evidence against him in the defamation trial a staggering $700,000 in hush money. I know about witness payoff be it from the police or the media the result is the same someone having a vested interest in a better outcome (for either the media or police).
This wasn’t “buying a story” upfront to get her testimony. This was straight-up manufacturing and then burying one. After the trial, Person 17 threatened to go public with explosive claims of misconduct by Nine’s star reporter Nick McKenzie, including allegations he had improperly obtained parts of Roberts-Smith’s legal strategy. Nine’s response? Pay her off with a confidentiality clause and try (and fail) to suppress the entire deed of settlement for the next 50 years.
When a media empire has to drop three-quarters of a million dollars to silence one of its own star witnesses from exposing its own dodgy dealings, you’re not watching journalism anymore. You’re watching a cover-up dressed up as the pursuit of truth.
Scott Jones called it. The rest of us are just catching up.
The mistress was after her promise of protection from Fairfax promised by McKensie NOT exposing anything! That was handled in court as unimportant. What about BRS paying off the NZ witness $45000 ! A witness in the defamation case?
FYI: No credible public evidence supports a claim that Ben Roberts-Smith paid $45,000 (or any specific sum) to “buy off” a New Zealand witness in his defamation case. There was a former New Zealand soldier (who had served in NZ SAS before joining the Australian SAS) known as Person 35. He gave evidence in the case.
The trial judge found him to be an unreliable and dishonest witness in key respects. His evidence did not significantly help or harm either side in a way that changed the outcome.
No mainstream reporting links him (or any other NZ witness) to a $45,000 payment or “payoff” from Roberts-Smith. Searches across court reports, news archives, and related coverage turn up nothing matching this figure tied to BRS paying a witness.
Andrew. Scott Jones-Interesting listening thats for sure ! Seems as though BRS is going to get the full Tedeschism! Let’s hope it blows up in their left/rightfaces!.
The first casualty of war is the truth..does that apply here ? Persons interested in the subject should read the details of every VC awarded to Australians in WW1.
Almost strangely similar – extreme bravery. Once again our dear policemen have distinguished themselves for their cowardly behaviour.
Unfortunately the whole thoughtful , seeking the truth process was somewhat spoilt by the didgusting advertising rubbish – molecule manipulating fuel saving device – April fools stunt ? What the prosecution is trying for is not even slightly amusing – it reeks of many a wrongful conviction . Genuinely sickening!
There could be civil disturbance – the scurrilous bastards..