AUDIO: 'Disappointed': Ken Wyatt on Welcome to Country furore
The debate over Welcome to Country ceremonies has continued, with the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggesting Anzac Day dawn services should not include them.
His comments follow public outrage over heckling led by a prominent neo-Nazi during a ceremony at Melbourne's Anzac Day dawn service on Friday.
Former Coalition Minister for Indigenous Australians and member of the Kalamunda RSL in WA, Ken Wyatt, led calls for the RSL in WA to overturn a ban on the ceremonies being performed in 2020 and says the same arguments are resurfacing.
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