SYDNEY: Thousands protested Australia's increasingly divisive national day on Thursday as the public debates whether the country's Indigenous population should be recognized in the constitution.

Australia Day on January 26 has traditionally celebrated the arrival of European settlers at Sydney Harbor in 1788, and has typically been observed with beach parties and backyard barbecues.

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