Welcome to country ceremony 'lacks heart'

By Andrew Taylor
Updated October 15 2012 - 8:08am, first published 7:59am
"Somewhat dismayed" ... Rhoda Roberts.
"Somewhat dismayed" ... Rhoda Roberts.

THE Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, supposedly opened up a new front in the culture wars two years ago by dismissing the practice of acknowledging traditional owners as a ''genuflection to political correctness''.