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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - SYDNEY — Australian authorities have issued heatwave warnings for most of the country as millions celebrate Australia Day on Monday, which also saw"Invasion Day" rallies in support of Indigenous Australians.
Temperatures are expected to peak on Tuesday, reaching the "high forties" Celsius in the southern states of Victoria and South Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
On Sunday, South Australia recorded temperatures as high as 48.5C, according to the bureau, which is warning of fire danger in parts of the country.
Some national day celebrations on Monday have been cancelled out of safety concerns.
In Adelaide, an Australia Day parade and light show have been cancelled due to the extreme heat forecast.
"While this is deeply disappointing for the community, performers and partners, community safety and wellbeing must come first," organisers said.
Aside from Victoria and South Australia, heatwave warnings have also been issued in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.
Many of these warnings will remain in place until Wednesday.
"We haven't seen heatwave conditions like this in Victoria for almost 20 years," Tim Wiebusch, Victoria's emergency management commissioner, told ABC.
On Monday, the Bureau of Meteorology warned of "extreme fire dangers" across parts of South Australia and much of south-western Victoria "due to very hot and dry weather combined with moderate to gusty winds".
The heat has also affected the Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Tennis player Jannik Sinner was seen suffering from cramps on the court on Saturday, before play was temporarily suspended in the rising heat. Nearly 80,000 fans were warned to take care under the scorching sun.
Australia Day commemorates the day Britain established the state of New South Wales as a penal colony, with the arrival in Sydney of ships bringing colonists and convicts.
However, for many Indigenous Australians, who make up about 4% of the country's 27 million people, the holiday is known as "Invasion Day" and marks the destruction of their cultures by European settlers.
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Meanwhile, thousands marked the day by by attending "Invasion Day" rallies in support of Indigenous Australians and calling for unity, while separate anti-immigration protests also drew crowds.
At Sydney's Hyde Park, the annual "Invasion Day" rally started at 10 a.m. (2300 GMT) with a tribute to those killed by a gunman in a NSW rural town last week.
Indigenous speakers also talked about land repatriation, the high number of deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody and the need to stay united against increasing nationalism with the right-wing opposition in disarray and Pauline Hanson's populist One Nation party rising in the polls.
Australia — where one in two people is either born overseas or has a parent born overseas — has seen record-high immigration in recent years, fuelling discontent among some voters amid soaring costs of living and a housing shortage.
"We need a coalition of all new Australians because if it wasn't for immigrants, Australia would have perished," Aboriginal woman Gwenda Stanley told the rally, as she condemned Hanson.
"So don't just stand with us today. Stand with us every day."
Every year on January 26, protesters rally against the mistreatment of Indigenous people, demanding the government drop the Australia Day celebrations or move the date. However, a survey by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Sunday showed a record number of Australians wanting to maintain the holiday on the same date.
Nearby, anti-immigration demonstrations began at noon as protesters, estimated in the hundreds by local media, arrived carrying Australian flags on poles. March for Australia, which has been criticised for alleged links to neo-Nazi groups, organised the demonstration. — Agencies — Agencies
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