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 ...

Captain Cook Statue in Sydney Defaced Ahead of Australia's National ... which marks the anniversary of the arrival of the British First Fleet in 1788. Every year on Jan. 26, protesters rally ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ... which marks the anniversary of the arrival of the British First Fleet in 1788.

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia's national ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney ... the country as it is the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, establishing the first ...

Australia Day, celebrated on 26 January, is a contentious holiday in the country as it is the anniversary of the arrival of the ... vandalism of the heritage Captain Cook statue,” he said.

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before the country’s national day.

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday. New ...