Australia Day commemorates the day Britain established the state of New South Wales as a penal colony, with the arrival in Sydney of ships bringing colonists and convicts. However, for many Indigenous Australians, who make up about 4% of the country's 27 million people, the holiday is known as "Invasion Day" and marks the destruction of their cultures by European settlers. At Sydney's Hyde Park, the annual "Invasion Day" rally started at 10 a.m. (2300 GMT) with a tribute to those killed by a gunman in a NSW rural town last week. Indigenous speakers also talked about land repatriation, the...
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