This is where I’ll leave the blog. Thanks for joining me for the final hours, and enjoy your afternoons. Before I go, a quick check in at Waneroo.

The Perth suburb has today hosted Australia’s largest citizenship ceremony for the fourth year in a row, with 800 residents from 49 countries becoming citizens.

Here’s the Chambers family, who arrived from Wales 10 years ago.

On the right is Waneroo councillor, Hugh Nguyen, attending the citizenship ceremony.

Agam Benipal’s parents, Preet and Harman, moved to Perth from India. They were all at Waneroo’s citizenship ceremony today.

This afternoon I sat down in Darwin, on Larrakia land, with Larrakia elder June Mills. She says changing the date is not enough.

“But it is a start of reality.

“If I was going to change the date it would be June the 3rd, which is the day when terra nullius was struck down. That’s a day worth celebrating. Because all the lies we’ve suffered from begin with terra nullius – that this was nobody’s land – which was a doozy.

“To me that’s the day, I know there are a lot of days being put up but to me that’s the day, when we smashed the lie that has been killing our people.”

But Mills recognised there was not majority support for changing the day yet, and said people weren’t going to go along with it until they were educated about Australia’s history and the impact it still had on Indigenous people and communities.

“People don’t know. But we’re only 3% of the population, we can’t do this job. It’s up to the government to really show leadership and sincerity, honesty about the reality of this country and tell the truth, put it in the schools. It’s not going to happen without education.”

Mills said there wouldn’t be enthusiasm about Australia Day from Indigenous people until this happened.

The newly appointed New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, would like people to not debate changing Australia Day on Australia Day.

Speaking to reporters after police and protesters clashed at the Invasion Day march in Sydney, Berejiklian said the violence was “disappointing”, and that while everyone had a right to protest, Australia Day was about unity.

“I’m so disappointed people couldn’t express themselves in a more appropriate way on such an important day,” she said.

AAP reported Berejiklian said there were 364 other days of the year to debate changing Australia’s national day.

It seems people were not listening, though.

The number of tweets mentioning #ChangeTheDate has grown 850% since 2016.

The number of Tweets using #InvasionDay grew 200% from 2014-2017.

The number of Tweets using #SurvivalDay grew 200% from 2014-2017.

Belief is a thing you have when you don’t have actual facts.

If only there were some facts around for Pauline Hanson.

Good afternoon everyone, this is Helen Davidson checking in to take you through the rest of the afternoon.

I hope you have spent your day well, and if you’ve been somewhere a little out of the ordinary please share your pics on Twitter (@heldavidson).

In the mean time, down on Sydney’s famous Bondi beach, some lifeguards are having official pillow fights, which to be fair makes way less sense than the Darwin Ute Run which Guardian Australia’s Paul Farrell was so rude about earlier today.

And then at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, Rebecca Matthews rugs up.

At the Australian Open in Melbourne people are sportingly patriotic as other people play tennis. Guardian mate Russell Jackson has filed this report on how the tennis is going.

That’s all from me on the live blog today. Stay with reporter Helen Davidson as she continues our coverage of Australia Day celebrations and protests, and the pointy end of the Hottest 100.

Hottest 100 halftime – the gender count so far

For the past few years, the Hottest 100 has been the springboard for an ongoing debate about gender and Triple J, with women vastly under-represented in the national poll and on the station’s playlist more broadly. In last year’s poll, the only women who made the top 10 were featured vocalists, and only 24 songs were by women – with four of them by Courtney Barnett. In 2014, of the 273 musicians featured in the countdown, only 34 were women.

As Erin Riley pointed out on Twitter and in a subsequent piece for Guardian Australia, in the history of the Hottest 100, more men from St Kevin’s College had won the poll than women.

This year could be different. Although no women featured in the top 10 of the station’s 2016 album poll, women are expected to make a much stronger showing in this year’s Hottest 100, with Amy Shark and Tash Sultana both predicted for the top 5 – and Shark has a chance at the #1 spot.

But we’ve been tallying the women count so far, and of the 50 songs that make up the first half of the poll, only 12 are performed by women artists or bands which feature women, with a further five featuring women vocalists.

Here’s #60-51. For the rest, click on this.

#60: Sofi Tukker – Drinkee

#59: Frank Ocean – Solo

#58: Ali Barter – Girlie Bits

#57: Catfish and the Bottlemen – Twice

#56: Paces – Keeping Score (Ft. Guy Sebastian) (Like A Version)

#55: Rufus – Say a Prayer for me

#54: Blink-182 – Bored To Death

#53: Violent Soho – Blanket

#52: Halsey – Love Yourself (Like A Version)

#51: Sticky Fingers – Outcast At Last

Read Erin Riley’s piece on gender, privilege and the Hottest 100:

We’ve got a bit more detail to hand about the scuffle between protesters and police at the Sydney Invasion Day march earlier today. The clashes reportedly began after protesters attempted to burn a flag. Police say they tried to extinguish the flames.

Footage shows police officers and protesters shoving each other. Police later arrested a 20-year-old man and took him to Redfern police station, while a police officer and a woman were injured and taken to hospital.

Martin Parkinson, the nation’s most senior public servant, was made a companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to the community. My colleague Gareth Hutchens has this story on Parkinson, his career, his push to modernise the economy, and his warning that young Australian adults could be the first generation in modern history with living standards below those of their parents.

Reporter Paul Karp has filed this story on deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce’s comments on the Australia Day protests. Joyce said he was tired of people “weeping” about Australia Day when they lived in a nation that was democratic, has free education, basic free health, is well defended, and that looks after its poor.

Joyce had this to say about the protesters:

Today is a day about celebration. I’m just sick of these people who every time they want to make us feel guilty about it. They don’t like Christmas, they don’t like Australia Day, they’re just miserable … and I wish they’d crawl under a rock and hide for a little bit.

The large Captain Cook statue in Cairns was redecorated for a short time this morning. It comes after a recent proposal by local Indigenous artist, Norman Miller, for a giant boomerang to be constructed and placed in the statue’s hand, according to the Cairns Post.

At the speakout tent at Yabun festival, Rhoda Roberts – head of Indigenous programming at the Sydney Opera House – introduced Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu: a book that challenges the understanding that precolonial Aboriginal Australians were hunter-gatherers who lived off the land.

Pascoe said this had been taught to suit European settlers’ purposes. Indigenous people’s perspectives were not heard in public discourse, said Roberts, “unless it’s something specific that’s about land rights”.

Asked why his and other Aboriginal people’s viewpoints were not sought on other issues relating to land management, such as climate change, Pascoe said:

“Because it takes a long time to unlearn 220 years of bullshit.

“Because everyone, including me went to school and learned that Aboriginal people were wanderers of the Earth, children of nature … The reason for that wasn’t because it was true but because the Europeans needed to tell that story, to justify taking the land.”

In Dark Emu, Pascoe writes that precolonial Aboriginal people across Australia were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing – all of which are inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag.

He told the sizeable crowd that the curriculum and the “kind of nonsense” taught in schools had not changed to reflect this new information.

This can only end well.

The crowds, and the flags, were out in force for Melbourne’s Australia Day parade on Swanston Street. The parade is a warming display of Australia’s cultural diversity. Participants from more than 90 community and cultural groups were involved.

Beyoncé has made her Triple J Hottest 100 debut at #66 with Hold Up, the third single off her game-changing sixth record Lemonade. The visual album, released with an accompanying film of clips, is jam-packed with discourse on race, gender and infidelity, and was lauded by the Guardian as the best album of 2016.

After the Taylor Swift/Hottest 100 furore of 2015, Triple J’s decision to add Beyoncé’s album to high rotation was a controversial one, which led to six songs being up for nomination in this year’s poll.

Triple J listeners are reacting as expected: split right down the middle.

Read Observer pop critic Kitty Empire’s review of Lemonade here:

Our photographer Jonny Weeks is in the Top End, and took these shots of the Darwin ute muster at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip.

We’ve delved into the archives for this one. Here’s one of the earliest mentions in the Observer of the fledgling colony of New South Wales from 22 April 1792. The Observer, sister paper of the Guardian and the world’s oldest Sunday paper, was founded just three years after the settlement in New South Wales.

Here are the tall ships sailing into Sydney Harbour on Thursday.

Sydney’s Invasion Day march eventually worked its way up Broadway to Victoria Park in Sydney for Yabun festival: the biggest one-day celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in Australia.

At 2pm, Victoria Park was packed with families and groups of friends enjoying the warm weather, food stalls and music and dance performances. A tent set aside for elders, with seating and refreshments, and another for activities for children, reflected the all-ages environment.

Local organisations such as the Redfern Community Centre and larger bodies such as the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and Amnesty International were not only represented, but being accessed by festival-goers.

With many people wearing the Aboriginal flag on their person, or T-shirts bearing slogans like “Grand Theft Australia” and “I See Deadly People”, the atmosphere was relaxed but engaged, and political – evidenced nowhere better than at the “speakout tent” of panel discussions.

At 2pm it was packed with people listening to group of elders, one of a number of discussions held throughout the day. One speaker encouraged the crowd, if they wanted to know something, to just ask.

Every Indigenous community had its customs and history, he said, singling out differences between “the saltwater mob and the freshwater mob”.

“One shoe will not fit the other foot … In our culture, you ask the questions, you get the answers.”

Speaking of the bizarre, Brisbane’s Story Bridge Hotel surely takes the cake for the oddest Australia Day event. It’s holding cockroach races, for reasons that escape me entirely. The pub’s hotel offers this by way of enticement:

And of course the iconic Cockroach Races! The first race scurries off at 12noon, launching a jam-packed program of 14 races, including a steeple chase. Read our race rules so you can be prepared for this awesome day and take part for your chance at victory. The last race is around 4.30pm and the music and fun continues into the evening.

Fittingly for this elite sporting event, we create dedicated stadium seating and even corporate boxes to watch the races in style!

One of the more unusual events to take place on Australia Day. Dogs and their owners, including Ashley and her dog Muffin, pictured here, race for glory on stand-up paddleboards at Watsons Bay, Sydney.

Sydney’s Invasion Day march has again brought a sizeable crowd this year. This shot from Mike Bowers shows the rally heading into Broadway before 2pm.

Shots are also starting to filter in from other Invasion Day marches across the country. Here’s the Brisbane march:

And Canberra:

And the latest images from the huge crowds rallying in Melbourne.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been kept busy at the official Australia Day proceedings in Canberra.

Triple J’s Hottest 100 is 20 tracks in already. Thundamentals, Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino have all made appearances, as has Canberra act Safia, which has songs at number 85 and 89 in the countdown.

There are reports of violence breaking out at the Invasion Day rally in Sydney. This vision shows scuffles between police and protesters.

The Invasion Day rally in Melbourne is now winding down. My colleague Calla Wahlquist is using the last of her phone battery to bring us some final vision.

An inflammatory Geelong Advertiser column, which we highlighted earlier this morning, appears to have been edited.

Guardian Australia photographer Mike Bowers has filed some more images from the Invasion Day rally in Sydney.

I’m handing over our continuing live coverage of the protests, honours and events occurring across Australia today to my colleague Chris Knaus.

We’re continuing our live coverage throughout the day with reporters at protests on the ground across the country.

My colleague Paul Karp has just sent through this latest update from Canberra:

The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has addressed the date of Australia Day at a citizenship ceremony in Brimbank.

There’s a bit of a controversy: should Australia Day be today? Whatever one’s view about the date of Australia Day, I think we can all agree that we should remember our first Australians for whom this day actually carries some sadness.

The people whose ancestors saw the ghost-white strangers perform their strange rituals and raise their curious flag not knowing, on that Australia Day in 1788, what that moment would foretell to the first Australians: disease, dispossession and all too often death.

Too many long years of injuries and indignities, great and small.

So today, on Australia Day we honour them – and every day – the guardians of this ancient continent, the keepers of the world’s oldest living culture, our first Australians.

My colleague Calla Wahlquist has been reporting from the Melbourne Invasion Day protests. Here are a few more of her updates from the event.

Here are a couple more updates from the Invasion Day march in Sydney, which has reached the city.

The world champion Australian surfer Mick Fanning is one of the many Australians appointed to the Order of Australia this year. Here’s how he reacted when he heard the news.

Every year on Australia Day the great city of Darwin has a “ute run”. I don’t really understand why they do this, but here are some photos of large cars driving around Darwin if you’re into that sort of thing.

Personally, if I had the day off I would prefer to go see La La Land than ogle utes but maybe that’s just me.

And more now from my colleague Calla Wahlquist, who is on the ground at the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne.

Here’s a video of the prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Australia Day video message:

Back on to the subject of music, and some Australian artists have come together to make a call to change the date of Australia Day in their own way.

My colleague Steph Harmon has this take on the musical collaboration between 12 Australian hip-hop artists:

Twelve Australian hip-hop artists have collaborated on a new track calling for Australia Day to be moved, and released it with a 360-degree video in partnership with the Indigenous TV channel NITV.

The track – which features the Herd’s Ozi Batla and Urthboy, L-Fresh the Lion, Hau of Koolism as well as the Indigenous hip-hop artists Kaylah Truth, Nooky, Birdz (Nathan Bird) and Tasman Keith, alongside Tuka and Jeswon of Thundamentals and Erica and Sally of Coda Conduct – gives voice to a growing campaign to move Australia Day from 26 January.

The Invasion Day march in Sydney is beginning to move from the Block in Redfern through to Hyde Park.

My colleague Paul Karp in Canberra has just sent through this short update from Malcolm Turnbull on the possibility of moving Australia Day:

The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has commented on proposals to move Australia Day from 26 January at an Australia Day barbecue with Zed Seselja in Canberra.

“I believe we should maintain the date,” he said. “Everyone is entitled to a point of view but I think most Australians accept January 26 as Australia Day.

“It is a day where we celebrate the rich diversity of all of our cultures from that from our first Australians as we saw, with Tina’s beautiful welcome to country on behalf of her people, the Ngunnawal people of this region here in the Canberra area, and to the new citizens, migrants who come from such diverse range of countries.”

Thanks for following along with our coverage of 26 January so far. I’m handing over to my colleague Paul Farrell now – you can share with him your views and news at @FarrellPF on Twitter.

Paul Daley writes of the calls to change the date:

If Australia Day is genuinely intended as a day of national unity and pride, then it must be so as a result of a process of truth and conciliation. We are not there yet. Not nearly. We won’t be until sovereignty is settled with treaties.

So, for the time being it remains a divisive and divided day – Invasion Day for an increasingly growing multitude of black and white Australians, a moment of profound, often ostentatious, sometimes aggressive, exclusive, nationalism for others.

The Melbourne march has stopped at the corner of Bourke and Exhibition streets in Melbourne.

In Sydney, protesters are hearing from speakers.

A Muslim Australian family have also shown solidarity.

A pairing of headlines on the Age makes a neat point about Australia Day, says writer Marcia Langton on Twitter.

The Indigenous Social Justice Association’s banner at the Invasion Day rally in Sydney: “If I were to die in police custody, know this … I did not commit suicide.”

Deaths of Indigenous people in custody have been under scrutiny owing to the coronial inquiry into the death of Ms Dhu. The findings, handed down in mid-December, stopped short of apportioning blame but chastised “unprofessional and inhumane” treatment of police officers and failures of key medical staff.

Days later, ISJA in Sydney staged a protest to call for a similar investigation into the death of David Dungay Jr, who died while being treated for a medical condition at Long Bay prison a year ago.

On New Year’s Day the former Indigenous affairs minister Robert Tickner used the release of the 1992-93 cabinet documents to urge leaders to “command the authority of the nation” to improve Indigenous incarceration rates.

Guardian Australia’s photographer-at-large Mike Bowers has filed these photographs from the Invasion Day rally at Redfern.