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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monarchs strive to make their mark on history, but King George V could never have imagined that, almost 90 years after his ...

Sky News host James Macpherson discusses how the Captain Cook statue in Melbourne has been attacked again. “A Captain Cook statue in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens has been attacked just weeks ...

Police are investigating an ­attempt to decapitate a Captain Cook statue in East Melbourne, saying those responsible will be treated as “criminals, not ­protesters”. Police said a security ...