The City of Melbourne has confirmed the ... And a statue of Captain Cook was sawn off at the ankles while a monument to Queen Victoria on the edge of the CBD was vandalised on the night before ...

City of Yarra will not reinstate the Captain Cook monument in Fitzroy North’s ... The latest Yarra decision comes after the City of Melbourne repaired and returned a 2.1m bronze statue of ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.