Let us forget Welcome to Country on Anzac Day

Spectator Australia · Lindsay Brien · Tuesday 28 April 2026

Let us forget Welcome to Country on Anzac Day

I had a great-uncle, the brother of my maternal grandfather, who died at Gallipoli. My father was in the RAAF… The post Let us forget Welcome to Country on Anzac Day appeared first on The Spectator Australia. What to read next: From the Sydney Opera House to Anzac Day: A pattern of impunity | This Anzac Day, I Remember John Elmhurst Price | The Digger’s Code: Anzac Day and the Vernacular of Belonging | Booing, Welcome to Country, and the long activist game

The Spectator's discovered Anzac Day is sacred and the booing was a desecration — the same masthead that runs three culture-war columns a week treating every ceremony as a battleground, then acts shocked when someone treats a ceremony as a battleground. You can't spend a decade telling people the Welcome is a political stunt and then complain when they boo it like one.

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