More than a thousand demonstrators have marched at Invasion Day protests in Australia's major cities.
The Invasion Day movement condemns Australia Day and mourns January 26 as the "day of killing" that accompanied the landing of the First Fleet 228 years ago.
Tuesday's protests gathered Aboriginal activists and supporters who, although organised by different groups, unified under the chant of "Always was, always will be Aboriginal land".
Flags and banners were waved in Sydney as protesters marched from the Block in the inner suburb of Redfern, where speeches and dances were performed, to Sydney Town Hall in the CBD.
"I don't mind Australia Day but they can have it on January 1... Because it is the day of what I call `the killing times'," Ken Canning, from the Indigenous Social Justice Association, told AAP.
Near Melbourne's Parliament House there were calls by activist group Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance to reject moves to recognise indigenous people in the constitution.
"The grassroots Aboriginal community says `no' to the recognition campaign that's been pushed onto us," organiser Meriki Onus said.
"We want to control our own politics."
A Brisbane rally listened to speeches on the stolen generations, racial discrimination and destruction of traditional lands. Protesters then moved on to Musgrove Park.
Outside Tasmania's Parliament House in Hobart a wreath was laid to commemorate the indigenous people killed as the result of white settlement. About 500 protesters called on Premier Will Hodgman to pressure the prime minister to change the holiday.
Protests in Western Australia, South Australia and Canberra will begin shortly.
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