Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of the Australia Day weekend. It is the second time in 12 months that the statue ...

Last year, one Captain Cook statue was cut down on the eve of the holiday, while its plinth was spray painted with the words 'the colony will fall'. Two years earlier the same Melbourne statue was ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

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Sky News host Caleb Bond slams the vandals who desecrated iconic statues in Sydney and Melbourne amid the ongoing controversy over Australia Day. The Captain Cook statue in Sydney was broken and ...

There are several Captain Cook statues across Australia, and others have also been vandalised on or around 26 January. In 2024, one in Melbourne was cut down on the eve of the holiday, while its ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...