Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day - Police say they are investigating incident which saw statue’s hand and nose knocked off ...

The statue - which was first unveiled in 1874 ... which was led by Captain Arthur Phillip. Australia Day is a contentious holiday for some, particularly among those in Aboriginal and Torres ...

Ahead of Australia Day, two historic statues in Melbourne were vandalized. A statue of colonist John Batman was damaged, and a monument commemorating WWI soldiers was defaced with red paint. The ...

Arthur Phillip believed he could turn a monumental ... wrote a faceless spray-painter last year across a Hyde Park statue of ­Captain James Cook, the man who mapped the coast of NSW 18 years ...