Friday marks the 80th anniversary of the day of mourning, an event that started a rich history of protest and resistance on 26 January in Australia.

Here is a round-up of Invasion Day protests, survival day rallies and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture events happening around Australia this week.

Sydney

The Long March for Justice Through Treaty, a 30th anniversary recreation of the 1988 march, will kick off with a welcome to country at Redfern Oval at 9.30am. The march will depart at 10am and walk toward Hyde Park, where there will be ceremony, music and speeches from the former Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs, the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples co-chair Jackie Huggins, ACTU secretary Sally McManus and others from 11.30am onwards. The march is calling for support for the Uluru statement’s proposal of a Makaratta or treaty commission.



At the same time, the Invasion Day Rally, organised by FIRE (Fighting In Resistance Equally) grassroots Indigenous activists, will leave The Block in Redfern at 10am and march toward Victoria Park, where the Yabun festival is held.

The Yabun festival is a free event that has been running since 2001 and is the largest one-day gathering and celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in Australia. It begins at 10am with a smoking ceremony at the corroboree ground and features ceremony, dance, musical performers including Troy Cassar-Daley and Electric Fields, a kids zone, AFL and rugby clinics, and a series of lectures and panels.

Melbourne

The Invasion Day #AbolishAustraliaDay rally begins at 11am on the steps of Parliament House on Spring Street. The march will go down Bourke Street and on to Swanston Street, ending at Flinders Street Station.

After the rally is the Balit Narrun – Share the Spirit Festival at Treasury Gardens. The festival is a free public music and culture event and runs from 1pm to 5pm.

There is also a family-friendly survival day event at Borthwick Park in Belgrave from 12pm to 5pm. The headline act is Yolgnu musician Gawurra Gaykamangu.

There is a pre-rally fundraiser at Bar Open on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, on Thursday 25 January. Doors open at 8pm and there is a $10 cover charge with proceeds going to Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), the activists group that organised the Melbourne march.

Adelaide

There will be a call to action rally on the steps of Parliament House in North Terrace at 10.30am, with a range of Indigenous speakers.

The Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide is also hosting a Survival Day event from 11am to 6pm. The event was going to be held at the Semaphore Foreshore but has been relocated to Tardanya on Grenfell Street due to extreme heat. There will be cultural events, a market and music, including Thursday Island singer-songwriter Eddie Peters and Indigenous contemporary dance group Of Desert and Sea.

Brisbane

The Meanjin (Brisbane) Invasion Day rally, organised by WAR, begins at 10.30am at Parliament House in George Street and will march to Musgrave Park. There will be music, dancing and cultural events at Musgrave Park from 1.30pm.

Perth

The Invasion Day rally will be held at Forrest Chase, off the Murray Street mall, in Perth from 1pm to 3pm.

Hobart

The Change the Date march will meet at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre at 198 Elizabeth Street, Hobart, at 11.30am and end in a rally on the lawns of the Tasmanian parliament house.

Canberra

The Canberra Invasion Day march will meet at 12pm at Garema Place in the Canberra CBD and march across Commonwealth Bridge to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy for a smoking ceremony.

Darwin

The activist group Community Solidarity Action NT has said it will hold a rally but the details are yet to be confirmed. You can follow the event here.