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Wild brawl erupts on Australia Day as celebrations turn sour at Wave Break Island

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Tensions flared up while Australia Day parties got out of hand on Sunday afternoon at Wave Break Island on the Gold Coast.

The police were forced to intervene after a scuffle among several young partygoers around 1.40 pm.

A witness claimed that some women were seen on the beach to participate in the fight.

Up to 200 spectators watched in horror while officers dragged the groups apart to break the fight.

The Queensland police could not provide further details, but it was understood that no charges were laid.

Officers and paramedics stayed on the spot while festivities continued the evening.

Most partygoers were cheerful when they spent the afternoon jetskis, dancing on boats and enjoying a dive.

Many patriotic partygoers visited Aussie flags.

Wild brawl erupts on Australia Day as celebrations turn sour at Wave Break Island

In the meantime, tens of thousands of demonstrators have proved to be on the national day of Australia on the National Day of Australia on tens of thousands of demonstrators on largely peaceful invasion day protests throughout the country.

Invasieaging events started in large capitals and regional centers with organizers who say January 26, the birthday of the arrival of the first fleet in 1788, was not a day to celebrate.

In Adelaide, demonstrations were almost disturbed when the SA police arrested a dozen people and accused of different streets and one man was arrested for showing a Nazi symbol.

In Melbourne, tens of thousands of people were on the steps of the State parliament – in what the organizers described as the greatest rise of the invasion day so far – to demand justice about native deaths in detention and missing women, and for governments that are for accountability called in treaty negotiations.

Sock of 'shame', 'long live the resistance' and 'from the river to the sea, was always' always' ran like a dozen speakers the crowd of speeches.

Indigenous activist and historian Dr. Gary Foley said that the failed voting referendum was proof that the greatest obstacle for a better future was 'Anglo-Australian racism born for fear and ignorance' of history.

“We must carefully train those who are not here today about the true nature of Australian history and why it is that we gather here on this occasion,” he told the crowd.

Zoe Upton, a member of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria who was involved in treaty negotiations, mourn the activists who came to her and said their work led to the determination to keep talking about injustice since the landing of the colonist.

Pro-Palestine activists who usually gather in the center of Melbourne joined the protest every Sunday, with demonstrators who stopped the streets of Russell and Swanston as they sang and marched to Flinders Street Station.

Democracy in color national director and Palestinian wife Noura Mansour said that the plight situation of indigenous Australians and Palestinians was intertwined.

“We were never the intention to survive … but the fact that we are here more than 200 years later, now demand a treaty, demand land back, calling for a free Palestine, is a miracle,” she told the crowd for To chive.

Aboriginal and Palestinian flags were abandoned in addition to banners who 'Australia: stolen land, Palestine: stolen land' and '237 years old, but not a treaty'.

There was a major police in the city for the largely peaceful demonstration, with a few small fogs between demonstrators and members of the public.

Victoria's police said that around 25,000 people attended the protests and no arrests were made.

Between 50 and 70 people gathered on a separate 'Pro-Australia Day Rally' in Gosch's Paddock, adjacent to Melbourne Park where the Australian is held open, but no arrests were made.

Thousands came together in Belmore Park in Central Sydney, many who keep Aboriginal and Palestinian flags, while hundreds of Aboriginal activists called to donate Australia Day or to be moved to another date.

Wiradjuri -woman Lily Hodgson said she was at the meeting for her ancestors.

“If you look in my eyes, you see my ancestors,” she told monkey.

“I am here for everything that has been taken from us, in our language, in our spirituality and in our connection, the country.”

The rally went on the way to Redfern, with thousands of peacefully marching through the streets of Sydney's CBD flanked by a heavy police, including the driven police.

About 15,000 people attended the rally and the NSW police said the crowd spread without arrests.

In Brisbane, thousands of people – many dressed in black, red and yellow – were on the grass in Queens Garden to listen peacefully to Aboriginal elderly people while marking January 26 with a gigantic Aboriginal flag on the lawns.

Speaker Oom Bill criticized Queensland's liberal national party government for the removal of the truth of the State within a few days after he took office.

“Things for native people go through the drain,” he told the crowd.

The demonstrators marched over Victoria Bridge, over the River Brisbane to Musgrave Park Chanting 'Always, will always be Aboriginal land' while police officers stood along the road.

Activists in Hobart marched to the State Parliament, while demonstrators marched past the parliament house in Canberra in the law, where an event would take place in the Aboriginal Tent -Bambassade.

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