 In 2005, he was reappointed by the Governor-General of Australia for a further two years.On 26 November 2012 the Australian Government Minister for Defence, Stephen Smith, announced that Roberts-Smith had been appointed chair of an independent Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART), to deal with individual complaints of sexual and other abuse in the Australian Defence Force, some going back decades.The taskforce assessed each individual allegation of abuse in Defence that occurred prior to April 2011.