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Anzac Day heckler identified and unrepentant | 7NEWS

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Good evening. Tonight we can reveal the man who booed the welcome to country at the Anzac

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Day dawn service in Martin Place and he's making no apologies. We track down 24-year-old Eli Tobey who's living with his parents near Penrith. It's not the first time he's been in the spotlight. He was also at a neo-Nazi rally outside Parliament

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House.

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Out of the shadows and into the light. I want to talk to you about your booing. Three days after a remembrance service that will be hard to forget, we decide to say boo to Sydney's accused Anzac agitator. Why did you boo at those people?

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Leave me alone, please.

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No, at the dawn service. He is 24-year-old Eli Tobey and while you mightn't have seen him, police will allege you most certainly heard him. All 66 seconds of he and a band of dawn service spoilers. Do you have any apology to make to the diggers, to their families?

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How'd you find me?

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Living at home with mum and dad. Do they know about what happened?

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I haven't told them yet. I'd rather you guys not tell them.

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But the secret's out and not for the first time. Here he is at last year's neo-Nazi rally outside Parliament House.

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The welcoming country, it's not right.

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Why is it not right?

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Because it's designed to humiliate the memory of white Australia.

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Do you think that was the right forum though to do it? I haven't really given much thought to be honest. But others have.

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I was appalled.

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Totally disgusted.

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It actually made me cry.

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While Saturday's shout down triggered widespread disgust, it also triggered broad debate, with the RSL now reviewing the entire welcome to country concept.

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Welcome to country has been overdone and I think that is unfortunate. But while some argue over that there's no retreat from this.

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Not sorry for it. Not sorry for the booing. I should be able to say what I Not sorry for it. Not sorry for the booing. I should be able to say what I like. He'll appear in court in June. Can you please leave now? Alright. Thanks.

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