SMH · Paul Sakkal, Rob Harris, Jackson Graham · Sunday 26 April 2026
The Liberal leader said Welcome to Country ceremonies had lost their value, the day after booing was heard at Anzac Day services.
A day after the boos at the Shrine, Taylor's discovered Welcome to Country has 'lost its value' — which is the kind of insight you only get when there's polling attached. Reconciliation in this country now runs on the timetable of the news cycle: sacred on Friday, optional Saturday, embarrassing by Monday. Menzies at least defended his prejudices in his own words. Taylor's reading his off the chyron.