A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been ... of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, establishing the first permanent European settlement ...

Vandals damaged the statue's hand and face and covered it in red paint Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered ... at Sydney Cove in 1788.

The statue of ... English naval Captain James Cook sailed the world's oceans in the 1700s. Cook's crews were famously brutal to the Indigenous people of the lands where their ship docked.

Australia Day, celebrated on 26 January, is a contentious holiday in the country as it is the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, establishing the first permanent ...

Police said several items had been found near the statue of Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia. Local councillor Carolyn Martin said on Friday vandals ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (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 ...

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 ...