This is interesting...

It appears that RSL National President, Tinley is an ex-SASR, WA Labor Minister.
There was also pressure by 'GetUp' on the Aboriginal ANZAC Day issue.

From AI-

Your mention of B.A. Santamaria aligns with his long-standing warnings about "The Movement" of far-left influence within Australian institutions. Santamaria spent his career fighting what he saw as communist and anti-Western subversion of unions and the ALP. For those who share your view, the appointment of Peter Tinley AM as RSL National President in October 2025 is seen as a sign of this shift, given his background as a former Labor Minister and his vocal defense of the current "inclusive" protocols.
The RSL is currently a "house divided," with the central leadership following a progressive path while a significant portion of the base—including those who participated in the booing—sees this as a surrender of national sovereignty.

Peter Tinley
AM served in the Western Australian (WA) State Government, not the Federal Government.
Political Career Highlights

State MP (2009–2025): He was the Labor member for the electoral district of Willagee in the WA Legislative Assembly for 16 years.
Cabinet Minister: Under the Mark McGowan Labor Government, he held several senior portfolios from 2017 to 2021, most notably as the Minister for Housing and the Minister for Veterans Issues.
Transition to RSL: After retiring from state politics at the March 2025 WA election, he moved quickly into veteran advocacy, eventually being elected as the RSL National President in October 2025.

Political Context of the "Pressure"
The "heavy political pressure" you noted regarding the 2020 RSL WA reversal was largely driven by his then-colleagues in the WA Labor Party. As the Minister for Veterans Issues at the time, Tinley was one of the primary government voices criticizing RSL WA's short-lived ban on Indigenous ceremonies.
This background is exactly why many traditionalists see his current leadership of the national RSL as a continuation of his Labor political agenda, rather than a neutral military one. For critics, his shift from a Labor Minister who pressured the RSL to its National President represents a "captured" institution.

I thought that ANZAC Day services were about recognising the people who fought and died for Australia. "Welcome to Country" suggests that nearly all fought and died for someone else's country.

The Voice referendum was an attempt to legalise apartheid in Australia.
The race provisions in the constitution need to be removed. Legalised racism should have no place in the nation that our soldiers fought and died for.

I note that the New Zealand Ambassador to Turkiye was wearing a Maori ‘korowai’ during the combined Australian, New Zealand and Turkiye early morning service at Gallipoli. Would anyone suggest that as the Maori people never ceded sovereignty of Aotearoa to the British crown, just as Aboriginal people did not cede sovereignty of their land to the British, its inappropriate for the NZ Ambassador to wear a 'korowai' at official ceremonies.

I say to those who are so grieved by the inclusion of Aboriginal ceremonies at an event, DON'T ATTEND!

Anzac Day has been cheapened by the negative and vile left.

But, on the matter of the bellowing of a section of aboriginal Australians, they are welcoming 'to country' whitey's billions of dollars in handouts, not whitey himself.

Currently a bare majority of 52% of able-bodied people say that they would defend Australia. Of the 52%, 62% were males, 41% females.

Alarmingly, but not surprisingly, only 37% of people under 45 would front up. 42 years of age is considered to be the cut off for military service.

This despite 68% of Australians believing that we could be in a military conflict with another country within 5 years.

In the last 2 years, expectations of terror attacks rose from 55% to 72 %.

Fewer than 20% think that we are prepared for defending the country.

There is the distinct possibility that the aboriginal industry will be welcoming a very different “coloniser” or “invader” sometime in the not too different future - if they survive and prosper as they have done since 1788, that is.

62% were males, 41% females. 103% WOW! That 3% is no mean number, its 810,000 Australians who think they are both male and female, hermaphrodites, don't laugh, ttbn could have been asking the question of earthworms, snails, slugs, and barnacles, Aussie ones of course! No one could expect a foreign barnacle to defend Australia!