Anzac Day heckler in Perth ‘disgusting’ says WA premier
The Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, has condemned a heckler who interrupted an Anzac Day service in Perth this morning.
The person disrupted a welcome to country at the Kings Park dawn service, shouting obscenities.
Cook said the behaviour was “disgusting”.
Totally inappropriate, totally disrespectful, disgusting. This is a solemn occasion. It’s one where we should come together as a community and or someone to use it to make a political point and in that disrespectful way, is really quite unacceptable.
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You can find more granular breakdowns of the polling on our tracking page.
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Earlier this morning, cabinet minister Jason Clare and the deputy Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, were reluctant to trade barbs on defence spending (given the day) on their regular Sunrise panel, which can sometimes get a bit heated.
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Host Nat Barr asked them whether they’d support mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s call to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP. Clare was hesitant to go into the issue:
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The investments that we make in our defence force and in the defence of Australia are very, very important. But I don’t want to get into the politics of that today …
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I think the last thing that Australians want to see this morning is Sussan and myself going tit for tat talking about this, or getting involved in some sort of political fight. I think that’d be really disrespectful.
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Clare was asked about Rinehart’s comments that Australia should boost defence manufacturing, which he said was already being done, and wouldn’t comment further. Ley wouldn’t back the call to increase spending to 5%, but took a small swipe at Labor.
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Nat, we agree with the prime minister that we live in the most complex geo-strategic circumstances since world war two. But respectfully, it’s not enough to state that without taking action. And our plan [is] to increase defence spending to 3% in the next decade.
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The main rival to X, Bluesky, has suffered an outage this morning, with services being down for around half an hour now.
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Bluesky, which many former Twitter users fled to after the site was taken over by Elon Musk, stated on Friday that the company was investigating “a major outage with Bluesky hosted PDS [personal data server] instances”.
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Basically what this means is the place where peoples posts are stored aren’t accessible at the moment, so while the site appears to load, albeit blankly, you can’t see posts or notifications or anything else.
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China’s ambassador to Australia has called on Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to stand with Beijing against the “bullying” Trump administration.
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Writing in the Australian this morning, Xiao Qian warned Australia’s leaders against giving the Trump administration a “free pass” on trade just because of a longstanding alliance. He writes:
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Faced with unilateral bullying, China will resolutely stand its ground, not only to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests but also to prevent the world from descending into a lawless “jungle” where might makes right.
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Both China and Australia are important countries in the Asia-Pacific region and beneficiaries as well as upholders of the multilateral system and free trade.
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Amidst the changing international landscape, China stands ready to work with all parties to resolutely oppose all forms of hegemony and bullying, firmly uphold the UN-centred international system and the international order based on international law, and contribute to the prosperity and stability of the region and the world at large.
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Peter Dutton has called the booing at an Anzac Day ceremony in Melbourne by alleged neo-Nazis a disgrace, adding that the extremist ideology was a “stain on our national fabric”.
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Shortly after visiting an Anzac day ceremony in his seat of Dickson this morning, the opposition leader delivered a brief statement to media on this morning’s events.
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We should never take for granted what we have in this country, and the work of the diggers, fighting the Nazis and fighting tyranny and autocrats … to see any, any instance whatsoever, of neo-Nazis in our country is just a disgrace, and I commend the police for the work that they’re doing, particularly in New South Wales and Victoria but across the country, to quash any presence of neo-Nazis in our country.
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Dutton added “they have no place at all, and they’re a stain on our national fabric, and they are not part of the Australian culture, and nothing should overshadow what it is to be here to commemorate and to celebrate the contribution over successive generations of those that have served in uniform”.
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Asked to comment directly on the boos while the ceremony’s welcome to country was being delivered, Dutton said the Indigenous acknowlegement “should be respected”:
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We have a proud Indigenous heritage in this country, and we should be proud to celebrate it as part of today. And we should always remember too that and remind ourselves, as we did at the [Sydney] Opera House last night, that Indigenous Australians played a very significant part [in Australia’s military conflicts] and still do today in the ranks of the Australian defence force.
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Joyce says there will be “no cuts” to the department of veterans’ affairs under the Coalition’s commitment to cut 41,000 public servants from Canberra over the next five years. He says, “I can promise you that when there will not be cuts in DVA”.
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The Coaltion has said there will be no forced redundancies and will look instead at natural attrition (where you don’t refill a role when a worker leaves) and hiring freezes. Joyce says:
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You look for people in retirement, and you do the cogent work of seeing if there can be any greater efficacy in the delivery, in the delivery of the taxpayers money by public servants. Now if, quite obviously, the …reduction in their frontline service means harm to somebody else, then it doesn’t pass the test, does it?
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Joyce admits mistakes were made in the past such as a lack of staff in the department of veterans’ affairs and the culture within the Department of Defence – both issues which were brought up by the royal commission.
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Joyce says he won’t engage in a debate on the issue on Anzac day and would talk more about those issues at a later time, but said he wouldn’t “start making excuses” about the problems that the royal commission identified:
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I’m not going to start making excuses, nor… participate in a parochial debate on Anzac Day. I’m quite happy to have it on another but let’s just go with the process of if you make a mistake, you fix it up. And we have offered bipartisan support in making sure that this issue is fixed up.
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The minister for veterans’ affairs, Matt Keogh, says booing heard at a dawn service in Melbourne was “concerning”.
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Speaking to Sky News earlier, Keogh said that it wasn’t “mandatory” for people to attend services, but if they did, they needed to be respectful.
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These are days of commemoration, they’re days of peaceful respect…
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It’s expected that people who do attend Anzac day ceremonies do so respectfully and it’s concerning that some people didn’t show due respect to that service.
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Liberal MP Keith Wolahan, who has previously served in the ADF, told Sky News he didn’t want to give the person responsible for the booing “any more air time”.
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I don’t think that person deserves any more airtime than they’ve been given already … It’s one person, one person out of a nation that gathered [en] mass to acknowledge this day. This day isn’t about that person, it’s about those who served and sacrificed.
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Good morning,
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Krishani Dhanji here with you, thanks to Martin Farrer for getting us started this morning.
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The prime minister is in Canberra, while Peter Dutton is in Brisbane for Anzac day dawn ceremonies this morning, as we come to the pointy end of this election campaign.
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We’ll bring you all of that as it comes.
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There are reports from Melbourne that some of the crowd at the dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance were booing proceedings.
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The Age and the Australian report that a group of men shouted over Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown as he welcomed attendees to his father’s land.
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The Australian heard shouts of “this is our country” and “we don’t have to be welcomed”.
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They also reportedly interrupted an address by the Victorian governor, Margaret Gardner, booing her Acknowledgement of Country.
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The opposition leader has issued a statement to mark Anzac Day as “one of the most significant, solemn and sacred days” on the Australian national calendar.
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Peter Dutton said that on this particular Anzac Day, “we will especially feel the weight of history”.
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2025 marks 80 years since the end of the second world war. That global conflagration engulfed almost every continent and almost every country. Barely a city or town, a suburb or street, a community or citizen was unscathed in some way by the catastrophe of that all-encompassing conflict.
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On this 80-year anniversary, Dutton expressed his gratitude “to the one million Australians who served and served with great honour”:
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We honour the 39,000 Australians who gave their lives. They experienced the horror of war to defeat tyranny and restore peace.
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As the custodians of that peace, it’s our duty to deter tyranny and prevent catastrophic war. In that duty, may we never waver in effort, energy and endeavour – spurred on by the souls we commemorate on Anzac Day. Lest we forget.
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The prime minister attended the service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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Anthony Albanese said this morning it was important to take time out of the flurry of campaigning to honour Australia’s defence forces, 110 years after the Gallipoli landings.
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“As we gather around cenotaphs or watch the parades, we reflect on all who have served in our name and all who serve now,” Albanese said.
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“We contemplate the debt we owe them – those who finally came home, their hearts reshaped by all they had seen and those who tragically never did.
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“Anzac Day asks us to stand against the erosion of time. So each year, we renew our vow to keep the flame of memory burning so brightly that its glow touches the next generation and the generation after that.”
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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Krishani Dhanji with the main action.
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The leaders of the major parties have paused their campaigns this morning to attend Anzac Day dawn services. The prime minister has been at the service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, while the opposition leader was at an event in Brisbane in his own electorate. Albanese said the memory of the fallen must be kept alive while Dutton said it was Australians’ “duty to deter tyranny and prevent catastrophic war”. More coming up.
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Our top story this Anzac Day morning is that the defence department has issued a “respectful request” to veterans such as the shadow defence minister, Andrew Hastie, and others who are standing as election candidates to stop using pictures of themselves in military uniform on their campaign material.
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Another of our top stories is the Coalition pledging that if they got into government they would abandon a longstanding Howard-era target for a two-thirds share for skilled migrants in an effort to slash permanent migration by 25%, or 45,000 people, next year.
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They need to make an impact, because a poll out today shows its primary vote has slipped to 31% with Labor up to 33.5%. Labor is leading by 53.5% to 46.5% on a two-party preferred basis, matching strong numbers in other recent polls.
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Key events
Krishani Dhanji
Thank you all for joining me on the blog today, I’ll leave you in the hands of the lovely Rafqa Touma to take you through the afternoon.
I’ll catch you here bright and early on Monday.
In pictures: Dawn service at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli
Gallipoli’s dawn service begins
The governor general, Sam Mostyn, is addressing crowds at the dawn service in Gallipoli. Mostyn pays tribute to the young men who “encountered the fury and the maelstrom of bullets and shrapnel,” and those who fell, and wouldn’t return home:
We remember them as exceptional. And certainly there were incredible acts of extraordinary valour, stories of exceptional courage and sacrifice, that have resounded the generations. But those who fought here, as you’ve heard this morning, were just like us, the quiet, thoughtful mate, the hard worker, the loner, the larrikin and so many of the characters, we all recognise.
Luca Ittimani
Co-chairs of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria condemn ‘racist attack’ during welcome to country
The co-chairs of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, Rueben Berg and Ngarra Murray, have condemned the “racist attack” during Melbourne’s Anzac Day dawn service and praised Uncle Mark Brown’s “strength and resolve” in a statement:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a long and proud history of serving and sacrifice for this Country. As First Peoples we love sharing our culture, we want to see it recognised and respected and for everyone to be able to celebrate it together.
We stand in solidarity with [Brown] and acknowledge his strength and resolve during the disruption.
Anzac Day heckler in Perth ‘disgusting’ says WA premier
The Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, has condemned a heckler who interrupted an Anzac Day service in Perth this morning.
The person disrupted a welcome to country at the Kings Park dawn service, shouting obscenities.
Cook said the behaviour was “disgusting”.
Totally inappropriate, totally disrespectful, disgusting. This is a solemn occasion. It’s one where we should come together as a community and or someone to use it to make a political point and in that disrespectful way, is really quite unacceptable.
PM calls booing at Anzac Day service ‘abhorrent, un-Australian and disgraceful’
The prime minister has released a statement condemning the booing at an Anzac day service in Melbourne this morning.
The PM says there is “no place” for this type of incident in Australia.
There is no place in Australia for what occurred in Melbourne this morning. A neo-Nazi disrupting Anzac day is abhorrent, un-Australian, and disgraceful. The people responsible must face the full force of the law.
Albanese attended the dawn service in Canberra.
The view from the outer suburbs
The verdict of voters in the outer suburbs of capital cities will be crucial in next Saturday’s election and both parties have thrown a lot of resources at trying to win them.
Henry Belot travelled to Hawke on Melbourne’s north-western fringe where he hears that people feel short-changed on services which haven’t kept pace with population growth.
“People just want a fair go,” one campaigner says. Here’s his full piece:
Natasha May
Greens continue push for dental into Medicare
As experts warn young Australians will remain victims of an oral health “blindspot” because of the “stubbornly agnostic” attitudes of major political parties to include dental in Medicare, the Greens leader, Adam Bandt, says their party would push Labor to act on getting dental into Medicare.
Bandt, whose party’s policy is to see dental covered under Medicare, told Guardian Australia:
It’s critical that we expand Medicare so it covers everything, for everyone – and that includes your mouth.
As anyone who’s ever had a tooth ache knows, dental care isn’t optional. It’s ridiculous that this doesn’t already exist.
This election the Greens will keep Dutton out and get Labor to act on getting dental into Medicare.
In pictures: Peter Dutton at a second Anzac day ceremony in Samford
Roy Morgan releases latest trust rankings in Australian politics
As we get to the pointy end of this election campaign – which the leaders have been trying to boil down to “who do you trust” – well, it turns out that the trust isn’t with the federal major parties.
According to pollsters Roy Morgan, back in March 2022 (just before the last election), Labor Senator and now foreign minister Penny Wong took the top gong for the highest net trust score.
She was followed by Anthony Albanese, then Tanya Plibersek, then WA premier Mark McGowan and the independent senator Jacqui Lambie.
In April 2025, none bar Lambie sit in the top five.
The most trusted pollie is now independent ACT senator David Pocock, followed by Lambie, then Queensland’s premier, David Crisfulli, NSW’s premier, Chris Minns, and WA’s premier, Roger Cook.
In terms of who voters distrust the most (and according to Roy Morgan, voters are being driven by distrust more than trust in their voting choices): In March 2022, it was Clive Palmer who was the least trusted, then Scott Morrison, and Peter Dutton.
Dutton has now become the most distrusted leader in April 2025, followed by Palmer, then Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese. The Greens leader, Adam Bandt, sits down in sixth place. Rounding out the top ten most distrusted are Pauline Hanson, Angus Taylor, Barnaby Joyce and Michaelia Cash.
Joyce, Hanson, Taylor and Cash were all in the top ten back in 2022 as well.
