PENRITH, NSW – A 24-year-old man accused of booing during the Welcome to Country at Sydney’s Anzac Day dawn service has confirmed his patriotic outburst was a deeply personal act of national defiance – just as long as nobody mentioned it to his mother who was apparently still asleep down the hall.
Eli Toby – who lives in his parents’ Penrith home and has previously been linked to a neo-Nazi rally outside NSW Parliament – told a 7News reporter at his front door he “should be able to say what I like” before politely requesting the journalist not say anything to the people paying his electricity bill.
“He’s a free thinker – a man of conviction – and a man who would strongly prefer his mum didn’t find out via the 6pm bulletin” said Patriot Lifestyle commentator Brett Lambchop-Whittle. “These are the silent voices of suburban Australia asking only that suburban Australia not check the front yard at 7am.”
Toby reportedly booed for 66 seconds before locking his bedroom door and pretending to be at TAFE.
Family neighbours described him as “always quiet” and “out the front mowing his step-dad’s lawn for petrol money”.
Pastor Uncle Ray Minniecon – the ADF veteran whose Acknowledgement was disrupted – has continued doing what he was already doing for 60 years before any of this happened.
At time of publication Linda was reportedly hanging Eli’s washing on the line, blissfully unaware her grown son had spent the morning representing the master race from the back row of a public memorial.
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