Police are seeking three people captured on CCTV overnight, whom they say tried to cut off the statue’s head and sprayed anti-Captain Cook messages in red paint on the cottage. Victoria Police ...

A memorial for controversial colonial figure John Batman at Queen Victoria Market was also damaged in January. And a statue of Captain Cook was sawn off at the ankles while a monument to Queen ...

It is believed two offenders spray-painted the 18th-century English cottage and damaged the bronze statue in Fitzroy Gardens at about 2am on Tuesday. A Victoria Police spokesman said the hut was ...

Victoria Police have spoken after a Captain Cook statue in the CBD was targeted by vandals again. The alleged offenders tried to cut off the statue’s head in the early hours of Tuesday morning, ...

NewsWire/ David Crosling A Victoria Police spokesman said the hut was defaced with various “anti-Cook” comments. The paint has since been cleaned off the cottage. The statue of Captain Cook ...

The Captain Cook statue and cottage in Fitzroy Gardens ... The damage follows a spate of vandalism on colonial statues across Victoria, including the beheading of the statues of two former prime ...

Victoria Police Detective Inspector Martin McLean said the alleged criminals would be caught if they didn’t hand themselves in. Melbourne Council staff inspect damage to the Captain Cook statue ...

A Victoria Police spokesman said the hut was defaced with various “anti-Cook” comments. The paint has since been cleaned off the cottage. The statue of Captain Cook also stands in the gardens ...