Ben Roberts-Smith's billionaire backer, Kerry Stokes, says the imputations found to be true in the crushing court judgement do "not accord with the man I know".Opposition Leader Peter Dutton took to TV to say Australia's elite Special Air Services (SAS) regiment had seen "significant culture change".But as some of the country's most high-profile figures react to Thursday's defamation ruling in the Federal Court, Mr Roberts-Smith — the man at the centre of the allegations — hasn't been heard from.After 110 days of evidence and one of the most expensive trials in Australian history, the war veteran didn't turn up to hear Justice Anthony Besanko's findings, which reverberated much further than the courtroom.
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