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. INTERACTIVE: Don't know who to vote for? Election MatchMaker is here to help 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. Warren Brown takes a look at the campaign failures in the election battle 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”. WATCH: PETER DUTTON BOOED AFTER 'SHOEY' FAIL AT RSL “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. CLICK HERE FOR JOE HILDEBRAND'S FULL ANALYSIS |