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Indigenous Rights Activists Protest On Australia Day

The January 26 national day commemorates the arrival of a British fleet in Sydney Harbour to establish a penal colony (Credit: AFP)

Tens of thousands of Australians protested over the treatment of Indigenous people on Sunday as the country celebrated a national holiday marking the 1788 arrival of British colonisers.

Crowds rallied in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities on Australia Day, decrying the high incarceration rates, poor health and historic persecution of the continent's first inhabitants, whose ancestry stretches back 60,000 years.

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