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.

A 110-year-old Captain Cook statue in a Melbourne park has been cut at the ankles and toppled off its stone base just hours before Australia Day. The bronze statue in St Kilda's Catani Gardens was ...

The spears were taken by members of Cook’s expedition from an unoccupied Aboriginal campsite, according to the National Museum of Australia’s website. A diary entry by Banks that the website ...

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 ...

Opponents of Australia Day celebrations denounce the ... Jolly said a local branch of the Captain Cook Society, an international group that celebrates the explorer, has offered to preserve the ...

the captain had claimed both New Zealand and the east coast of Australia for Britain. (In neither case had Cook sought or secured the “Consent of the Natives,” but this lapse doesn’t seem to ...

Captain Cook is a controversial figure – villain ... including New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands (which still bear his name), and the islands of Hawaii. "Whatever you think about Cook ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Statues of Captain James Cook and Queen Victoria have been vandalised in Melbourne on the eve of Australia Day, prompting a police ...

Captain Cook Statue in Sydney Defaced Ahead of Australia's National Day SYDNEY (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east ...