Australia Day protest at Vic parliament

More than 150 people have gathered near Parliament House in Melbourne at a protest condemning Australia Day.

The Invasion Day protest on Tuesday, organised by the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, rejects moves to recognise indigenous people in the constitution.

"The grassroots Aboriginal community says 'no' to the recognition campaign that's been pushed onto us," organiser Meriki Onus told AAP.

"We want to control our own politics."

Robbie Thorpe, who led a smoking ceremony at Parliament Reserve, said Aboriginal people continue to suffer injustices more than 200 years after the British colonised Australia.

"This is the only Commonwealth without a treaty with the original people," he told the crowd.

Indigenous people never consented to the British coming to Australia and taking over the land, he said.

Mr Thorpe says Australia has a shameful history of Aboriginal genocide and oppression, and Australia Day is a reminder of that.