INVASION DAY RALLY MELBOURNE 2021 - AAP
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A Victorian senator has told thousands of Melbourne "Invasion Day" demonstrators that Australia's Indigenous people need a treaty, not more symbolic gestures.
About 5000 masked protesters marched in Melbourne's CBD on Australia Day, moving in staggered COVID-safe units from Parliament House toward Flinders Street.
They chanted "Always was, always will be Aboriginal land" and "No pride in genocide" while holding placards and Aboriginal flags.
Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman elected in September, said Australia needed a treaty to "resolve the war that was declared on our people almost 250 years ago".