‘Racism is a cancer’: Indigenous leaders condemn orchestrated booing at Anzac Day ceremonies

Uncle Jack Pearson, an army captain, says heckling ‘not in the Anzac spirit’ after welcome to country booed in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/25/booing-indigenous-speakers-booed-anzac-day-dawn-service-welcome-country-ben-roberts-smith-ntwnfb">Indigenous speakers booed while Ben Roberts-Smith attends separate Gold Coast event

• Marcia Langton: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/25/disruptive-racists-booing-anzac-day-welcome-country-police-ban-ntwnfb">The AFL bans disruptive racists.

  Surely police can do the same for morons who boo welcome to country

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Indigenous leaders have condemned people who booed welcome to country speeches at Anzac Day dawn services across the country, with an army captain stating “racism is a cancer”.

Elders who spoke at services in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/25/booing-indigenous-speakers-booed-anzac-day-dawn-service-welcome-country-ben-roberts-smith-ntwnfb">on Saturday morning were booed following a campaign by Fight for Australia, the group formerly known as March for Australia, which has previously https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/31/march-for-australia-neo-nazis-among-protesters-at-anti-immigration-rallies">staged major anti-immigration rallies.