Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day - Police say they are investigating incident ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before ...

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red ...

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

It comes after the heads of two prime ministerial busts were severed and stolen in a regional Victorian city. A Captain Cook statue in Sydney's east has been vandalised for the second time in 12 ...

A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, ...

SYDNEY >> 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 ...

British explorer Captain James Cook and the crew of the ... said some people thought Cook's arrival made "a huge contribution to society" - while others thought it a "tragic intervention".