🇦🇺 I grew up respecting Anzac Day and the Anzacs with all my heart. Several family members served, including myself, and that respect is unwavering.
Booing a Welcome to Country is not disrespecting the fallen. What is wrong and un-Australian is forcing it into Anzac Day services.
Anzac Day is sacred — a day of unity, mateship, and remembrance for all who served and fell for one Australia.
The Anzacs fought for a shared nation, not division.
Inserting Welcome to Country ceremonies, with their frequent emphasis on “stolen land” and separate ownership, shifts the focus from collective sacrifice to grievance and identity politics.
It tells non-Indigenous Australians they are perpetual guests in their own country, even while honouring those who defended it.
This politicises a solemn day that should rise above such things.
True Australian spirit is about equality and loyalty to the nation as a whole — not compelled rituals that divide us.
I stand with Jacob Hersant.
Nationalist activist Jacob Hersant speaks to the media outside court where he and three others are being prosecuted for allegedly booing during the "welcome to country" at an Anzac Day Dawn Service last year.
"No one should be jailed for expressing their political views"