A statue of British hero Captain James Cook has been vandalised just days before Australia Day celebrations kick off. The ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.

Two historic statues were damaged in Melbourne ahead of Australia Day protests. One of John Batman, linked to Indigenous ...

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 national ...

The statue in Sydney’s east was splashed in red paint and had its hand and nose knocked off, the second time it has been defaced in 12 months.

But those who oppose this monument say it ignores tens of thousands of years of indigenous history. The statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park. The statue of the first President of ...

Two historic statues were damaged in Melbourne ahead of Australia Day celebrations on Sunday where tens of thousands across ...

A Sydney Greens councillor says a statue of Captain Cook is a “painful reminder of the devastating impacts of colonialism” ...

James Cook first spotted the bay and stayed ... Take time in between snorkel trips and scuba dives to behold the large white Captain Cook Monument that sits across the bay. There's also a ...

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 statue ...