News that a Captain Cook statue was vandalised on Australia Day eve is, sadly, hardly surprising.
The St Kilda sculpture of the great explorer was sawn off at the ankles and the mount on which the statue sat was graffitied with the words ‘the colony will fall’ in red paint.
Who the culprits were is anyone’s guess.
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