Let's not cancel Captain Cook: what history tells us of the great navigator
His memorials have been the focus of Australia Day protests in recent years but Captain James Cook's life and death show he ...
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Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day
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 ...
Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day
While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...