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It is hard to conceive of a more anti-Australian act, which lays bare just how much these people’s claims to be patriots is based on a lie, writes Joe Hildebrand.
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Joe Hildebrand
Federal election correspondent

Anzac Day is supposed to be Australia’s most solemn and sacred national holiday, and so campaign hostilities were again suspended as the nation commemorated its war dead.

Unfortunately someone forgot to tell the neo-Nazis.

In what is perhaps the ugliest incident to violate an Anzac Day in living memory, the Dawn Service in Melbourne was marred by booing during the Welcome to Country.

And a known neo-Nazi repeatedly interrupted the ceremony with moronic statements like “Australia for the white man”, before eventually being escorted away.

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It is hard to conceive of a more anti-Australian act than such disgraceful and disrespectful behaviour, which lays bare just how much these people’s claims to be patriots is based on a lie.

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Leaders on all sides were quick to condemn the action in the strongest language yet heard during this campaign.

Greens leader Adam Bandt called the incident “disgraceful”.

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“There’s no room for hate, division or racism on this day or any day,” he said.

Indeed, just to underscore these noble sentiments Bandt spent Anzac Day eve partying with Abbie Chatfield and a giant red toothbrush at a Brisbane nightclub.

I guess we all recognise the sanctity of Anzac Day in our own special way.

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