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The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty

Indigenous speakers booed at Anzac Day services while Ben Roberts-Smith attends separate Gold Coast event

Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith at the Anzac Day dawn service at Currumbin beach on the Gold Coast.
Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith at the Anzac Day dawn service at Currumbin beach on the Gold Coast. Photograph: Russell Freeman/AAP

Booing has marred Anzac Day commemorations in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, while on the Gold Coast, the Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith attended the dawn service at Currumbin beach.

One man was arrested at the Sydney dawn service at Martin Place, where there was a small but noisy interjection of booing during the Indigenous acknowledgment of country.

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