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 comes amid a spate of anti-colonial vandalism in Australia. A group tried to strike a statue of Captain James Cook, a British explorer known for mapping the east coast of Australia, last month ...

Last year the statue in Melbourne of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney's coast, was sawn off at the ankles, while a monument of Queen Victoria in the city's Queen ...

The Devaney Center will now bear John Cook's name and a statue of the legendary Nebraska volleyball coach will be outside the ...