Protests, concerts and healing ceremonies marked Invasion and Survival Day 2016.

Across the country, Indigenous people have marked Australia Day with a mixture of celebrations, protests, rallies and festivals.

Organisers of Australia Day celebrations in Sydney promised more of an Indigenous influence this year.

The day started off with the WugulOra, meaning 'one mob' in Gadigal, ceremony to recognise the traditional owners connection to the land.

Aboriginal pop star Jessica Mauboy sang the national anthem in a mixture of Aboriginal language and English while the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag were raised with the Australian flag on the Harbour Bridge.

Instagram: @jessicamauboy1

Across New South Wales thousands of protestors, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, marched through city streets calling for greater recognition of past injustices.

In Sydney, a rally organised by the Indigenous Social Justice Association and the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy attracted around a thousand protesters who marched down George Street to the Sydney Town Hall.

Elder Ken Canning, one of the organisers, told BuzzFeed News that, "January 26 is not a day to celebrate. It's a day to commemorate our ancestors and to say we have never ceded sovereignty."

Canning says the march was a way of paying tribute to the group of Aboriginal people who on Australia Day in 1938 declared January 26 a day of mourning.

"This is a day of mourning and we are honouring our dead.

Allan Clarke / BuzzFeed