Article 756E5 Indigenous speakers booed at Anzac Day services as Ben Roberts-Smith attends Gold Coast event

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

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Ben Doherty
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Roberts-Smith, who has denied five charges of war crime murder, says he was always going to attend: I never thought about not coming'

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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