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.
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 ...
In January 2024, a statue of Cook in Melbourne was doused in paint and sawn off at the ankles on the eve of Australia Day. The vandals wrote on the plinth of the statue: “The colony will fall.” ...
English naval Captain James Cook sailed the world's oceans in the 1700s. Cook's crews were famously brutal to the Indigenous people of the lands where their ship docked. Australia Day, celebrated ...
A Captain Cook statue was covered in red paint and smashed just two days before Australia Day celebrations are set to begin. The monument of the famed British explorer James Cook is located in ...
SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first ... paint and damaged two days before Australia's national day, authorities said on Friday.
Vandals damaged the statue's hand and face and covered it in red paint Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was ... ahead of the Australia Day weekend.
SYDNEY >> A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first ... red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s national day, authorities said on Friday.
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.