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‘Racism is a cancer’: Indigenous leaders condemn orchestrated booing at Anzac Day ceremonies

<p>Uncle Jack Pearson, an army captain, says heckling ‘not in the Anzac spirit’ after welcome to country booed in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/25/booing-indigenous-speakers-booed-anzac-day-dawn-service-welcome-countr

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‘Racism is a cancer’: Indigenous leaders condemn orchestrated booing at Anzac Day ceremonies<p>Uncle Jack Pearson, an army captain, says heckling ‘not in the Anzac spirit’ after welcome to country booed in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/25/booing-indigenous-speakers-booed-anzac-day-dawn-service-welcome-countr
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