Booing Welcome to Country does not honour the fallen

April 26, 2026 — 7:30pm

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Uncle Ray Minniecon is precisely the kind of person in whom Australia should take deep pride.

His grandfather, Private James Lingwoodock, was with the 11th Light Horse Brigade, whose members fought at Gallipoli. He had two brothers in Vietnam, and he himself served for two years as a driver in the CMF.

Three generations of Diggers. But not enough to impress a Neo-Nazi.

Blinded by hate and intolerance, the man started booing when Minniecon began his Anzac Day dawn service Welcome to Country at the Sydney Cenotaph. The man was quickly arrested, but the........

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