Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has clarified remarks he made on ABC Radio National this morning condemning outbreaks of booing at Melbourne’s Anzac Day dawn service when references were made to indigenous service personnel and when speakers made welcome to country statements.

In his comments Mr Joyce, who had phoned into the RN Breakfast program from the Canberra dawn service event, said he could not understand how those who were booing in Melbourne came to the conclusion their actions might be acceptable.

“It’s hard to fathom how people get the idea to boo like that just because Peter Dutton and I and others in the Liberal and National parties spent the best part of a year peddling a racist campaign to defeat the Voice to Parliament referendum, and just because Peter Dutton refuses to stand in front of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags, and just because many in the Coalition don’t believe in being welcomed to our own country,” he said. “It’s a real puzzle to me.”

Mr Joyce later rang back RN Breakfast to clarify his comments.

“I want to make clear I wasn’t actually at the Canberra dawn service in any official capacity,” he explained. “I just happened to pass by while stumbling home shitfaced and called in thinking there might be booze there too.”

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