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.

Erected in 1879, the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney’s Hyde Park bears an inscription that claims Cook “discovered” Australia. But those who oppose this monument say it ignores tens of ...

What are they but marble clichés stuffing up history with dead convictions? To be sure, there will be a few unstable citizens who live in hope that one day, Disney-like, in a shower of stardust, they ...

Picture: David Crosling The Captain Cook statue at Catani Gardens in St Kilda ... words “The colony will fall” in the lead-up to Australia Day in 2024.