How dare they. How dare they.
How dare they impose the racially divisive, increasingly loathed ‘Welcome to Country’ bullshit on one of the most solemn days of the Australian calendar. How dare they.
They can clutch their pearls all they like about ‘disrespect’ from members of the crowd, but the real disrespect was given a bully-pulpit and a microphone (not to mention, almost certainly, a big, fat wad of taxpayer’s money) at what is supposed to be a shrine to those who fell defending this country. For this box-ticking clown to stand on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance and essentially tell the thousands gathered that the men and women who died defending Australia, and their descendants, don’t really belong there, is the pinnacle of disrespect.
When are the chattering elite going to finally admit that they lost the Voice referendum – and that in repudiating the Voice, Australians rejected, loud and clear, the entire racially-divisive ‘Aboriginal sovereignty’ agenda? Because that’s what ‘Uncle’ Mark Brown was clearly pushing.
Did none of the tin-eared politicians and chattering elites clutching their pearls about the booing even listen to what this clown was shouting at them? Brown’s strident, hectoring speech was all about ‘respect’ for his “elders” and his “community members”, and his “traditional custodians”. At great length, he elaborated on every piece of Victoria and Tasmania (seriously!) which, he says, are “ours”. “Ours”, meaning Aborigines, not Australians.
But there was one group of people he didn’t acknowledge, pay respect to, or even mention.
The fallen.
Not a word about the fallen soldiers, the men and women who gave their lives in defence of Australia, whom Anzac Day is actually supposed to acknowledge.
And the sanctimonious elite wonder why people booed?
As one heavily decorated veteran told a mainstream media reporter, the booing might have been out of place – but so was the Welcome to Country. Anzac Day, he said, is ‘not the right time or place for it’.
For them to welcome us to this country is disrespectful.
“I have a lot of veteran mates that haven’t come today solely because of the Welcome to Country. Because our friends died for this country, for this soil – and for them to be welcomed is a slap in the face.”
So, spare me the shrieks of ‘neo-Nazi’. If veterans are being driven away from the Dawn Service because of the racially-divisive garbage of ‘Welcome to Country’, there’s the real disgrace.
Even if, as alleged, one of the hecklers is a neo-Nazi, the rest weren’t. Besides, sometimes, regrettably, even a neo-Nazi can be right about some things. As unfairly-ignored Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin once said, if a Klansman said to him that it was a nice day, and it was a nice day, that a Klansman said so wouldn’t change that fact.
Indeed, speaking of the Civil Rights movement, its great hero, Martin Luther King Jr was a known rapist (at the very least, documented as watching on and laughing as one of his parishioners was raped in front of him). Does that invalidate the whole Civil Rights movement?
So, let’s stick to the central argument, then: was it wrong and disrespectful to shoehorn a ‘Welcome to Country’ into the Dawn Service? Absolutely it was.
Besides, it’s beyond noticeable that none of the fainting aunts screeching about a lone ‘neo-Nazi’ have said nothing about the anti-Semitic protesters who interrupted the Dawn Service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra with screams of ‘Free Palestine’.
This fracas speaks to a deeper problem in Australian society: the chattering elite have never accepted that their racially-divisive agenda was firmly rejected by an overwhelming number of Australians in the October 2023 ‘Voice’ referendum. When Australians thoroughly rejected the ‘Voice’, they also rejected the rest of the ‘Aboriginal sovereignty’ agenda of which it was just the first arm.
Australians completely rejected all attempts to divide us along racial lines. Including the made-up bullshit of ‘Welcome to Country’ and ‘Traditional Acknowledgement’. That this was part of the agenda was openly acknowledged by the ‘Voice’ proponents, who swore to never have another ‘Welcome to Country’ if they lost the referendum.
Well, they lost the election. Why haven’t they stopped with the WTC bullshit? Because the elite have simply never accepted that they did lose. Instead, they’ve carried on exactly as if the referendum never happened.
And they wonder why Australians are starting to boo them, even at Anzac Day?
The divide is just as clear in reactions to the booing. The chattering elite – the politicians and media – are shrieking and fainting. Once again, in stark contrast to apparent public opinion. Social media is, of course, always a fraught stage from which to gauge public opinion, but even on heavily left-leaning fora like X, the overwhelming opinion appears to be against the WTC. Especially on Anzac Day.
It’s deplorable that the arrogant elite have pushed things to the point that Anzac Day has been marred by booing – but they brought it on themselves with such a disgusting show of disrespect for the fallen in the first place.
