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.

Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of the Australia Day weekend. It is the second time in 12 months that the ...

The incident follows another attack last month when a Captain Cook statue in Sydney was splattered with red paint, and its hand and nose were damaged just before Australia Day. Investigators are ...

Sky News host Caleb Bond says people who target a statue of Captain Cook are attacking the ... to a horrific condition on the eve of Australia Day in Sydney's east.

Footage of the head set alight on a barbecue was posted to social media on Australia Day. The Captain Cook cottage was also vandalised overnight.Credit: Chris Hopkins According to the Captain Cook ...

"On Australia Day, we come together to celebrate ... based on a "false premise", believing it marked the day Captain Cook founded this continent. He actually landed nearly two decades earlier ...

Australia Day on 26 January is considered a day of mourning by many Indigenous Australians, as it marks the day Captain Cook’s ship landed in Sydney Cove, triggering Australia’s colonisation ...

He seemed to have conquered the world with his explorations of Eastern Canada, Antarctica, Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada ...

And a statue of Captain Cook was sawn off at the ankles while a monument to Queen Victoria on the edge of the CBD was vandalised on the night before Australia Day last year. Debbie Gibson is a ...

Almost a year to the day since the statue of Captain Cook was toppled in Fitzroy Gardens, vandals have again attacked overnight. It was reinstalled earlier this month, and overnight, vandals ...

Police say vandals who used an angle grinder in an attempt to cut the head off a statue of Captain Cook in Fitzroy ... the lead up to last year’s Australia Day. Another Captain Cook statue ...