Five men who were jailed for life over a murder near a Perth train station hours after Australia Day celebrations in 2016 are appealing.

Patrick Slater, 26, was assaulted with an array of makeshift weapons including a star picket and a pole, then stabbed through the heart with a screwdriver in a group attack near the Esplanade train station.

Patrick 'Paddy' Slater died at the Esplanade Train Station in Perth on Australia Day 2016

Christopher James Birdsall, Dylan Terrance Wayne Anthony, Clinton Fredrick Mead, his brother Stefan Lazba Mead and Robert Christopher James Pickett were convicted of Mr Slater's murder after a Supreme Court of WA trial last year.

Two juveniles, who cannot be named, were also convicted and jailed.