SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said they arrested two women after a statute of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was defaced ...

PINK paint has been dumped on the head of the James Cook statue in St Kilda and sprayed with the words ‘No Pride’ while the statue of Burke and Wills has allegedly been splattered with green paint in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid the many equality issues the global movement has highlighted, the focus has turned to figures from colonial history. Protests in the US have led to the toppling of Confederate statues, while ...

SYDNEY >> 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 ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval Captain James Cook sailed the world's oceans in the 1700s. Cook's crews ...