Thousands of protesters have marched in Sydney on Australia Day arguing the term "invasion day" better describes what happened in 1788 and the suffering that indigenous Australians have experienced since.
Aboriginal people were supported by protesters from all walks of life in Sydney's Hyde Park before the crowded headed to Victoria Park.
Many were holding banners demanding "change the date" and "justice now".
"We need to change the country," Greens NSW MP David Shoebridge told the crowd.
"I'm part of the problem. I'm a member of that institution ... of parliament."
Controversial changes to NSW child protection laws passed in November converted more than 800 state guardianship orders for indigenous children to open adoptions.
Mr Shoebridge said that meant children could be put up for adoption without the consent of their parents or guardians.
"These laws didn't happen in 1788, they happened down there in parliament in 2018."
Gomeroi elder Sue-Ellen Tighe, who leads anti-forced adoption group Grandmothers Against Removals, argued that following the 2008 apology by then-prime minister Kevin Rudd to the stolen generation the forced removal of indigenous children jumped 400 per cent.
"We are not our politicians' legacies," Ms Tighe said to cheers.
"Our generations and generations of the past were victims of this. I'm here in 2019 again saying our removal rates are above anywhere else in the world."
Led by local community elders, the protesters stretched three city blocks on Saturday, as they marched from the CBD to Victoria Park in Camperdown.
