On Saturday, boos interrupted Welcome to Country segments at Anzac Day Dawn Services in Sydney and Melbourne, where thousands gathered to mark 111 years since the Gallipoli landing that claimed over 8,700 Australian lives.
Veterans’ groups like the RSL condemned the disruptions as loutish, while Indigenous leaders called it racism betraying Anzac mateship; critics saw it as pushback against a 1970s ritual absent from most of the commemoration’s history.
Quite simple really, the general population does not like an entitled aboriginal welcome us to our owen country and STATING this is his and his fathers country. You cannot get more decisive than that.
The clashes echo post-Voice referendum tensions over tradition and inclusion at events honoring all who served.
