Majority of Australians Reject Welcome to Country, Media Labels Them Far-Right Extremists
Australians are pushing back on Welcome to Country, with 66% saying they want to end the divisive ritual, and a further 23% wanting less of them. Instead of listening, the legacy media has branded them as far-right extremists.
Welcome to Country (WTC) is well past its use-by date. Post-ANZAC Day polling suggests the majority of Australians are over the controversial practice.
A colossal 104,000 (66%) of 157,256 voters said WTC “should end completely.”
An additional 37,000 (23%) of those who took the News.com poll said Welcome to Country should be scaled back, while only 3% wanted more.
Only 8% said there is currently “the right amount” of WTC before and at main events, including flights, day care centres, memorial services, and on television shows.
Australians Reject Being Strangers in Their Own Land
The poll is catastrophic news for Cultural Marxists. With the majority of Aussies rejecting the race-baiting “hate Whitey” assumptions behind WTC, the latest figures signal the death knell of left-wing revisionist propaganda.
The numbers show that native-born Australians are fed up with being told they need to be constantly welcomed to a country in which they were born.
Equally rejected is WTC’s Critical Race Theory package deal, which tells White, native-born Australians that their Anglo ethnicity and lighter shade of melanin makes them irredeemable “racists” by default.
A catalyst for the polling result is the legacy media’s gaslighting of WTC critics as far-right extremists for protesting the Welcome to Country held before an ANZAC Day service in Victoria.
Only neo-Nazis want to scrap Welcome to Country, I’ve been told.
So I was alarmed to discover that 68% of Australia’s population are neo-Nazis! pic.twitter.com/3CTmLYoxAg
— Kurt Mahlburg (@k_mahlburg) April 27, 2025
Commenting on the incident, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson stated on X that she’s been “warning about Welcome to Country performances for a long time.”
“These are not about bringing Australians together, they’re about making Australians feel like outsiders in their own country,” she said. “On ANZAC Day, things boiled over.”
“Instead of listening to the many decent Australians who are simply trying to be heard, the media and politicians are smearing everyone who spoke up as extremists, which simply is not true.”
Australians have “had enough, and One Nation agrees,” Hanson wrote in a separate social media post. “It was deeply disrespectful to force these ceremonies onto ANZAC Day.”
“Australians are tired of being divided by race at every event, every gathering, every opportunity,“ she concluded.
Welcome to Country Slammed as Political Virtue Signalling
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who has a long history of working with Indigenous Australians, told 2GB News that Welcome to Country is “overdone.”
“I have a fundamental problem with these things. When they’re taken out of the context of local Indigenous communities or facilities, it suggests the country belongs more to some people than others.”
WTC has become an “exercise in virtue signalling; a badge of political correctness,” Abbott continued.
“It’s become a political statement forced on people, a bit like wearing masks during COVID-19. If you weren’t a mask-wearing enthusiast, you weren’t taking the pandemic seriously enough.”
To this, Abbott added, “Let’s put this divisive practice behind us.”
While Sky News host Danica De Giorgio played into the “only neo-Nazis oppose WTC” narrative, she also stated, “We have had a gutfull of these Welcome to Countries being shoved down our throat.”
Echoing Pauline Hanson, the indomitable George Christensen declared, “We don’t want Welcome to Country, or Acknowledgment of Country ceremonies. We don’t want government services segregated on the basis of race. We are one Australia.”
“The fact no one has listened to this and just carried on with all the crap is a direct cause of scenes like this,” he added. “Expect more of it.”
In a different thread, Christensen shared video of at least one veteran telling a journalist he supported the right to protest WTC.
“I have a lot of veteran mates who didn’t come today, solely because of the Welcome to Country,” the veteran said. “For them to welcome us to this country is a slap in the face.”
“Our mates died for this soil. We shouldn’t be welcomed — we already belong here.”
One veteran told Channel 9:
“For them to welcome us to this country is a slap in the face. Our mates died for this soil. We shouldn’t be welcomed—we already belong here.”
And what did the journalist do?
He argued with the veteran. On Anzac Day. 6/12 pic.twitter.com/X5RvxCi8ho
— George Christensen (@NationFirstAust) April 25, 2025
Defending those who defend us, Dr Stephen Chavura made his own protest known. In a video posted on social media, the learned historian said, “WTC is completely inappropriate to Australia because it is essentially Indigenous Australians saying to Australians, ‘this is our land, it is not your land, you are here as long as we want you here.’”
“This is bad enough,” he added. “It should never be taking place at an ANZAC Day ceremony.”
Keep your “Welcome to Country”, especially on ANZAC Day. pic.twitter.com/JA83VxKw5R
— Stephen Chavura (@ChavuraStephen) April 25, 2025
Even Tucker Carlson has chimed into the debate.
Speaking at a Clive Palmer function last month, Carlson, said he was shocked by the “land acknowledgement ceremonies.”
“I found it one of the most grotesque things I’ve ever seen, one of the most profound humiliation rituals I’ve ever witnessed in my life.”
Honouring God, Country, and Diggers — Not Division
News.com called the 66% smackdown of Welcome to Country in its poll “staggering.”
The numbers align closely with the Australian Labor Party’s defeated 2023 Voice referendum.
During that vote, 60.1% of Australians rejected Labor’s Woke Critical Race Theory proposals to enshrine an unelected ethnocentric “Aboriginal Voice” to parliament.
Like Welcome to Country, the Voice would have divided the nation by race, and embedded perpetual grievance politics into Australia’s Constitution.
I agree with the majority, and those linked above. Welcome to Country is divisive, unhistorical nonsense, which should be completely rejected for the sake of Australia’s future as a nation.
I believe the same treatment should also be applied to multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the antitheses of E pluribis umum — Latin for “out of many, one” — and multiethnic social cohesion.
As I’ve long argued, The West cannot survive what multiculturalism allows. The only acknowledgement of country we should be hearing on ANZAC Day is the acknowledgement of God’s blessing on this country, alongside the acknowledgement of all Aussie veterans, past, present, and emerging.
And the only acceptable Welcome to Country is “Well done diggers, and welcome back!”
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A very welcome revelation indeed. Welcome to Country has been so completely overdone.
Jacinta Price speaks for the great majority of aboriginal people and for the great majority of Australians. We do no need to be welcomed to our own country.
Darn right, WtC is simply an Australian expression of marxist critical theory, supporting the indigenous against colonial oppressors. Part of the purpose of WtC is to state that Australia is all still aboriginal land and everyone else is a colonialist oppressor who should have no rights to it.
Reject WtC. Reject all marxism.
I’m probably not going to use Tucker Carlson as my “guide to what’s good, beautiful & true.” but WtC is an endorsement of a divisive religious ceremony that has no place in an historically Christian Western country.
Fair comment. BUT, broken clock and all that…