While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...

The monument of the British explorer James Cook is located in the Randwick suburb in Sydney and was vandalaised ahead of anti-colonial protests expected over the weekend.

Vandals damaged the statue's hand and face and covered it in red paint Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James ... Captain Cook statues across Australia, and others ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb ... at the ankles on the eve of Australia Day. The vandals wrote on the plinth of the statue: “The colony will fall.” ...

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

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

Australia’s national day, which falls today, has two purposes. It is an opportunity for Australians to celebrate who they are ...

Thousands of Australians took to the streets on Australia Day in protest, highlighting it as a day of mourning for Indigenous ...

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 Australia's national ...

Australia Day on 26 January is considered a day of mourning by many Indigenous Australians, as it marks the day Captain ...