21 Mar 2023

Former Australian SAS soldier charged with murder

From Morning Report, 7:54 am on 21 March 2023

A former Australian SAS soldier has been charged with murder - following a years-long investigation into allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.

Forty-one-year-old former trooper Oliver Schulz was shown in a television documentary in 2020 - shooting an Afghan man in a wheat field in Uruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan. 

Investigative journalist and former war correspondent in Afghanistan Jon Stephenson has been following the case.

He spoke to Corin Dann.