Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of ...

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It comes after the heads of two prime ministerial busts were severed and stolen in a regional Victorian city. A Captain Cook ...