Last year in Melbourne, a Captain Cook statue was sawed off at the ankles, and a monument to King George V was beheaded. Image The Sydney Opera House, lit in celebration of Australia Day, on Sunday.

The granite-and-bronze memorial in Melbourne has been a favourite target of vandals. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Terri, 60, posted a sweet video of her granddaughter on Sunday, Dec. 15, as the duo explored the Australia Zoo. In the Instagram post, Grace, 3, is circling the base of a bronze statue of Terri .

There are several Captain Cook statues across Australia, and others have also been vandalised on or around 26 January. In 2024, one in Melbourne was cut down on the eve of the holiday, ...

Vandals poured red paint over a different statue of Cook in the lead-up to Australia Day earlier this year. Statues of colonial figures such as Cook are frequently targeted by vandals to draw ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - 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 ...

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.

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...

It won't be long before the emus at the Oakland Zoo start chomping corn dogs and staring in rapturous fascination at the poor, captive Homo sapiens. They're almost at that point now. At the zoo's ...

An iconic animal statue at Atascadero’s Charles Paddock Zoo migrated to a new enclosure during a recent makeover of the Caribbean flamingo habitat. Previously housed with the flamingos, the zoo ...

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 ...

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 ...