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.

A statue of British hero Captain James Cook has been vandalised just days before Australia Day celebrations kick off. The sandstone monument of the explorer and naval captain situated in Randwick, ...

A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney’s east has been splashed ... genocide” and draw the outline of an Aboriginal flag on the monument. On Thursday night, the heads were stolen from the statues ...

On the eve of Australia Day, a Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs was attacked and vandalised, with red paint ...

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 ...

A monument memorialising Melbourne’s controversial founder John Batman has been toppled on the eve of January 26. The ...

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

Captain Cook won the $250,000 Withers by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct to join the Kentucky Derby trail. Ridden by Manny Franco, Captain Cook ran nine furlongs in 1:51.83.

Two historic statues were damaged in Melbourne ahead of Australia Day celebrations on Sunday where tens of thousands across ...

The statue in Sydney’s east was splashed in red paint and had its hand and nose knocked off, the second time it has been ...

A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney’s east has been splashed with red paint ... write “no pride in genocide” and draw the outline of an Aboriginal flag on the monument. On Thursday night, the heads ...