#Latest news with #AboriginalCeremonyTimes22-05-2025PoliticsTimesNeo-Nazis disrupt Aboriginal Anzac Day ceremony in AustraliaAustralian political leaders have condemned neo-Nazis who interrupted an Aboriginal ceremony at an Anzac Day dawn service in Melbourne on Friday. Aboriginal representatives were in the middle of their traditional Welcome to Country greeting to about 50,000 people gathered at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance war memorial for the annual commemoration of Australian and New Zealand troops landing at Gallipoli in 1915. Anzac Day is a public holiday across Australia and New Zealand in honour of their war dead. The solemn mood of the Melbourne event was broken during an address being delivered by an Aboriginal elder when a group in the crowd began to jeer and heckle. Some began shouting for the Welcome to Country to be halted but the hecklers — identified by police
Times22-05-2025PoliticsTimesNeo-Nazis disrupt Aboriginal Anzac Day ceremony in AustraliaAustralian political leaders have condemned neo-Nazis who interrupted an Aboriginal ceremony at an Anzac Day dawn service in Melbourne on Friday. Aboriginal representatives were in the middle of their traditional Welcome to Country greeting to about 50,000 people gathered at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance war memorial for the annual commemoration of Australian and New Zealand troops landing at Gallipoli in 1915. Anzac Day is a public holiday across Australia and New Zealand in honour of their war dead. The solemn mood of the Melbourne event was broken during an address being delivered by an Aboriginal elder when a group in the crowd began to jeer and heckle. Some began shouting for the Welcome to Country to be halted but the hecklers — identified by police
22-05-2025
