Not that surprising seeing you’re not Australian, but Ben Roberts-Smith is one of the most famous people in Australia. I’m not sure what his politics are - he doesn’t play party politics as far as I know - but he was the first Australian to receive the Victoria Cross (the Commonwealth’s highest honour for bravery in the face of the enemy) in forty years and that pretty much catapaulted him into the public eye. Since leaving the Army, he’s gone into business - and he’s actually General Manager of one of Australia’s television networks now, which makes 60 Minutes inquiry into him even more problematic - that’s made on a rival network.
So in affect you are saying they are going after him because he is with a rival station? Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if this was 60 minutes motivation for dragging him through the mud. Sounds like their MO for decades.