Verve Communications Director Prue MacSween has criticised Randwick Mayor Philipa Veitch’s calls for a Captain Cook statue to be removed. The mayor claimed the statue is a symbol of “colonial ...

A statue in Melbourne of Yorkshire-born naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney's coast ... will be ultimately borne by ratepayers.” Captain Cook's statue has been taken away ...

Last year, a statue of Captain Cook in central Sydney was also vandalised with messages including "change the date" and "no pride in genocide". It followed a high-profile public debate about ...

It is not the first time the Captain James ... Britain's First Fleet at Sydney Cove and the start of the colonial era. The vandals wrote "The colony will fall" on the Cook statue's plinth.