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Welcome to Country booed during Shrine dawn serivce
This year’s ANZAC Day dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance has been marred by protesters booing during the Welcome to Country.
The group of men reportedly jeered and yelled during parts of the service, with others cheering to try drown out the boos.
RSL officials told 3AW reporter Madelaine Burke they had never heard anything like it before.
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“The tone took a turn when the service began and that was during the Welcome to Country,” she said on 3AW Breakfast.
“(The boos) lasted the entire five minutes (of the Welcome to Country).”
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