This needs to stop

Only an exceptionally small and fragile man could feel threatened by a simple ritual of respect.

Hey Steve, how's your picture of Hitler going? Did you worship it this morning before you went off to say "Lest we Forget"?

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So that's a yes. Are you going to let the media see your Hitler shrine?

This is incorrect. The 'right of passage' through another Aboriginal tribe's territory is a 'tanderrum'. The 'Welcome to Country Ceremony' was invented in 1976. We know it's a modern invention because, unlike 'tanderrum', there are no words or phrases in any of the 200+ language and dialects for 'Welcome to Country'. The Maoris have their ancient word, 'Haka', for welcomes/wardances. There is no ancient word for 'Welcome to Country'. If there are no traditional words for it, it didn't exist. For example, prior to colonisation, how did one say: "Who's performing the Welcome to Ceremony?" if there were no Aboriginal words for it? Simple logic defeats the notion that it's an ancient ceremony.

The only people upset with Welcome to Country's are racist grifters. If you wanna know who's causing division, look in the mirror.

Respect costs you nothing.

Still in your pjs. Didn’t go to the dawn service yourself, did you?

Not in my PJs, this is my smoking jacket

You’ve certainly been smoking something other than tobacco

Hmmm, what you bin smoking?

You clowns all have the same game.

How about you run back to your mummy, get her to find your pacifier and have a bit of a nap. You One Nation morons are the most pathetic idiots in the country. You do not even know what welcome to country means AND you hate our ANZACs promoting booing at dawn services.

Utterly disrespectful.

Here we go, the RWNJs have politicised another day with their culture war crap 🥱

Our elites have nobody to blame but themselves for the reception these ceremonies are getting. If you tell people their ancestors founded an illegitimate nation, you are sending them the message they don’t belong. Any welcome in such circumstances comes across as insincere.

Your family was fighting on the other side- stay in your lane.

I take offense on behalf of my GG grandfather who lost his life in WW1.

White privilege

No one does crazy quite like an unhinged Greek

@Jennyaar11 That's all you have, just a string of insults to attack anyone who disagrees with you.

@Jennyaar11 No, the original post is an argument that you can interact with. No insults at all.

Hey Steve, the people have had enough of the division. There's no place for a 'welcome to country' ceremony at the ANZAC dawn service. It would have been the last thing on our fallen veterans' minds at Gallipoli; they died for their country, all of us. The political and media class do need to get a grip; it is they who have created this division.

And who the fuck are you?

The dawn service i attended this morning had no welcome to country , one only Australian FLAG RAISE

So you won’t acknowledge that Aboriginal people were here first, served alongside everyone else, and deserve to be seen. That’s what you are saying when opposing the Welcome To Country at solemn events. There is a time and place for a WTC and the dawn service is absolutely one.

They have no place anywhere boo them everywhere silence is consent

#GFY hate monger.

Oh so ur making the rules for Australia now? Who knew! I thought that was why we elected representatives to the parliament for that! If I have to choose between you & them…I’m not choosing a racist nobody to dictate terms.

There's a lot going on in that jumble sale in your head cooker, and it's all bargain basement, chipped and stained. Time to educate you, and let you cook at the same time. “National demoralisation program”? Mate, you’ve built a conspiracy out of a microphone and a greeting. This isn’t analysis. It’s a full-blown narrative stitched together from vibes, fear, and a wildly confident misunderstanding of what a Welcome to Country actually is. Let’s pull it apart. ▓ What Welcome to Country actually is (and isn’t) The whole “this is a war permission ritual” claim? That’s the centrepiece of the argument - and it’s doing a lot of heavy lifting. Yes, historically, different groups had protocols for entering each other’s land. Like… most human societies ever. That doesn’t magically translate into: 𖧀 “You are here by permission and we could wage war on you.” That’s not how modern Welcome to Country functions. It’s a ceremonial acknowledgment of custodianship and respect, not a territorial threat dressed up in polite language. Turning it into some kind of psychological warfare program is like saying a handshake is a dominance ritual because medieval knights used to size each other up. ▓ The conspiracy leap Here’s where it goes off the rails: Ceremony at public events ↓ “Demoralisation program” ↓ “Preparing youth for radical treaties” ↓ “Australia is illegitimate” That’s not a logical chain. That’s a staircase where half the steps are missing and the rest are labelled “just trust me.” There’s zero evidence that a short ceremonial acknowledgment at events is conditioning an entire generation to reject the country. That’s projection, not proof. ▓ ANZAC Day “used to unite everyone” This one always sounds nice until you scratch it. ANZAC Day has never been some perfectly unified, politics-free bubble. Different groups have always experienced it differently - including Indigenous Australians who served and came home to inequality. Including them now isn’t “breaking unity.” It’s expanding who gets recognised within it. ▓ The sleight of hand This argument relies on a few tricks: →Redefining a cultural practice into something threatening (“It’s actually a war signal!”) →Inflating a brief ceremony into a national psychological operation (“It’s conditioning the youth!”) →Recasting inclusion as attack (“You’re being told you don’t belong!”) →Then offering the ‘solution’ Remove the inclusion, tension disappears. That’s not analysis. That’s framing. ▓ The reality A Welcome to Country at ANZAC Day isn’t telling veterans or families they’re trespassers. It’s acknowledging that the country those soldiers fought for has a deeper history that includes people who were here long before the nation-state existed. That’s not “delegitimising Australia.” That’s acknowledging the full story of it. We suspect you've never served or fought unless it was with a comb that refused to go near your head. PS: Water some of those plants, make yourself useful for a change.

You call yourself a historian and you can’t figure out why Aboriginal people welcoming us to country at Anzac Day makes perfect sense when they died for it before Australia even considered them human. Embarrassing.

I'll bet the house you haven't served this country. My father & father-in-law did at great personal cost, as did indigenous Australians. Just stfu on this day. It's disgusting that people like you wind up fellow non-serving numpties to the point of booing #Anzacday ceremonies.

I wish someone (from a country more powerful than you) would invade your home, throw you out, starve you, try to massacre you, steal your children, and then boo you from the crowd at a national commemoration a few short decades later. You are a fascist.

Nazis have no place at ANZAC Day ceremonies!!!

@FLongshank Well said

The far right dishonoured the solemnity of ANZAC day. Booing at a dawn service is disgraceful. They booed a person whose family has served Australia over generations. The selfishness of booing has ruined our ANZAC day. Knock yourselves out trolling me. I’m done with dishonour.

You're going to hate this Stephen, but what was wrong with every anzac day commemoration across Australia today is that imperialist war should never have been supported or allowed to happen. Australia's ruling elite are promoting war & anzac "traditions" so they can drive another generation of working class youth to die for their profits. Trump & his Oligarchs in the US are baying for the blood of all young working class men & women in their drive to enrich themselves by taking over the oil & natural resources of the world.

Because you say so????

Well, the whole video is an argument for my position. A former teacher should recognise that.

@narelleford Your position could have been summarized as: This doesn't really affect me—I just enjoy having someone to punch down on and have it vaildated by the most mean-spirited among us.

@ChavuraStephen Well said Peter.

@RIGPIG888 I agree. There is no place for Welcome to Country on Anzac Day. It is disrespectful to our soldiers. They are trying to hijack our last sacred day.

@OzPollies Labour’s policy of mass migrantion is incoherent with their promotion of welcome to country and everything that entails. Do migrants care of the plight of aboriginals ? Does mass immigrantion dilute the aboriginal voice ?

Little man baby came out of mum's basement to give us a history lecture. This pathetic Champ, it's this sort of narrow minded crap that helped fuel the Nationalism of the Nations we stood against. Get in the bin you pathetic coward.

Tell your story to Reg, you grub.

Racist