Some choice quotes:
[7:26, from an ex-NSN neo-Nazi in the March for Australia recap voice chat] “What surprised me is like, how handsy people got. I had someone pushing me in the back. I had another guy […] threatening to punch my friend’s teeth in.”
Anecdotally, some had veterans grabbing their mouths to shut them up. Many people completely unfamiliar with the group reported that it was obvious they’d divided into tiny clusters of 4 spread in the crowd to avoid being shut down easily.
[9:00, same chatroom] “The lesson I’ve taken is we gotta enforce the 1-metre rule very heavily next time” [a self-defense guidance of keeping 1 metre distance from opponents in a fight, in this context their opponents are the crowd of ANZAC veterans and commemorators]
They seem surprised that doing this stunt is alienating them from many nationalists and might push the Overton window away from them.
We also get some prime crying from a Perth idiot pretending they didn’t come in a co-ordinated group to desecrate a commemoration day, ranting to their phone about being moved along by cops. The booing at Perth ended up being clearly only one or two quiet Nazis as a result.
Why anyone would have Welcome To the country on ANZAC dawn service? They are completely unrelated.
A land acknowledgement is relevant to an event held on land. But especially to an event focused on commemoration and respect, of acknowledging war and conflict Australia has been involved in.
there’s no the. It’s “Welcome to country”
to translate: It’s an indigenous protocol welcoming people to the land on which they stand. And it is very appropriate to have at a gathering of people brought together for a common purpose.
We have the oldest living culture in human history, fucking embrace it.