Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Ben Roberts-Smith invitation to war memorial event ‘appropriate’, says Marles Richard Marles says it’s appropriate that the accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith will attend the official opening for the centrepiece of the revamped Australian War Memorial. It’s appropriate that Ben Roberts-Smith be given an invite to this, as a Victoria Cross recipient. The Victoria Cross recipients have been invited to this, which is appropriate, I’m comfortable about that.