The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

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.

Australia Day is known to some Indigenous Australians as Invasion Day, symbolising a key moment in the destruction of their ...

Works to repair and restore it were completed a month later. There are several Captain Cook statues across Australia, and others have also been vandalised on or around 26 January. In 2024 ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second ...

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.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - 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 ...

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of ...