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Captain Cook

June 2024

  • A beheaded statue of King George V is seen in Kings Domain in Melbourne.

    Statue of King George V beheaded in Melbourne on King’s birthday holiday

    Police called to Kings Domain Monday morning to find head removed and paint thrown at monument

April 2024

  • Members of the La Perouse Aboriginal community at the repatriation ceremony at Trinity College, Cambridge

    Spears taken by Captain Cook at Botany Bay returned to traditional owners after more than 250 years

    Three-decade campaign by the Gweagal community of La Perouse sees repatriation of four spears to Kamay

February 2024

  • The statue of the British explorer, Captain Cook, in Fitzroy Gardens, before it was damaged.

    Captain Cook statue outside Melbourne’s Cook’s Cottage toppled amid spate of attacks

    City of Melbourne council says CCTV footage shows a group cutting down statue early Monday in the third attack on a Captain Cook memorial in Melbourne this year

January 2024

  • Bollards are seen at the site of a vandalised statue of Captain Cook in Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy, Melbourne

    Melbourne council considers permanent removal of Captain Cook memorial after vandalism

    The stone memorial at Edinburgh Gardens, in Fitzroy North, was toppled and spray-painted with the words ‘cook the colony’ on Sunday

  • Captain Cook statue targeted in Melbourne in apparent Australia Day protest – video

    A century-old statue erected in St Kilda was sawn off at the ankles and the plinth spray-painted with the slogan 'The colony will fail'.
  • The empty plinth in St Kilda, Melbourne, where a Captain Cook statue was toppled overnight

    Captain Cook statue sawn off and Queen Victoria monument defaced in Melbourne on eve of 26 January

    Both monuments reportedly spray-painted with ‘The colony will fall’ in apparent protest against Australia Day date

November 2023

  • An Australian-built replica of the Endeavour is moored at Darling Harbour

    Discovery provides further evidence shipwreck is Captain Cook’s Endeavour, maritime scientists say

    Australian archaeologists say discovery of a pump well and section of bow strengthens theory that wreckage in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island is famous vessel

March 2023

  • Four Australian Aboriginal spears taken by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 from Kamay (Botany Bay), are to be repatriated back to Country.

    Spears stolen by Captain Cook from Kamay/Botany Bay in 1770 to be returned to traditional owners

    Held by Cambridge University for more than 250 years, the spears mark ‘first point in shared history’

June 2022

  • Jacob (voiced by Karl Urban) and Maisie (voiced by Zaris-Angel Hator).

    The Sea Beast review – feisty stowaway hunts monsters in lavish fantasy epic

  • From We Are Still Here

    We Are Still Here review – 10 directors take on Captain Cook in thrilling ways

May 2022

  • Pink paint is seen covering the head of the James Cook statue in St Kilda, Melbourne, Thursday, January 25. 2018. A statue of Captain James Cook and another statue commemorating two explorers have been vandalised in Melbourne in the lead up to Australia Day. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

    The Audio Long Read
    How to kill a god: the myth of Captain Cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall – podcast

  • Calls to remove the Captain Cook statue in Cairns gained prominence in 2020 as the Black Lives Matter movement led to a removal of statues commemorating colonial figures around the world.

    Infamous Captain Cook statue in controversial pose removed from Queensland street

January 2022

  • An engraving of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s The Apotheosis of Captain Cook by John Thane and John Webber

    The long read
    How to kill a god: the myth of Captain Cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall

    The long read: In the 18th century, the naval explorer was worshipped as a deity. Now his statues are being defaced across the lands he visited

January 2021

  • HMS Resolution, which James Cook used to circumnavigate Antarctica.

    Weatherwatch
    How Captain Cook described the weather on Antarctica voyage

    Journal tells of ‘an unusual Snow white brightness’ as explorer’s ship made its way through icy islands

June 2020

  • Jeff Sparrow

    Culture warriors obsessed with statues ignore Rio Tinto’s vandalism of Indigenous heritage

    Jeff Sparrow
  • First Dog on the Moon

    First Dog on the Moon
    So here are some statues we might not pull down! A tribute to Egg Boy and a pillar of chicken salt

    First Dog on the Moon
  • A statue to Captain James Cook stands in Sydney<br>A statue to Captain James Cook, a controversial figure in the history of Australia, stands in Sydney, Australia, June 11, 2020. Picture taken June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

    Greens staffer among two women alleged to have defaced Captain Cook statue in Sydney

  • A screenshot of a NSW police officer appearing to make a white power salute near the Sydney Black Lives Matter protest on Friday night

    NSW police officer appears to make white power salute near Sydney Black Lives Matter protest

May 2020

  • Victorian Deputy Chief Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen

    Victoria health officer found not to have breached code of conduct with Captain Cook tweet

    Deputy chief health officer Annaliese van Diemen had faced demands for her resignation after posting a controversial tweet

March 2020

  • Paul Daley

    Postcolonial
    Captain Cook's cottage – the place he didn't ever call home

    Paul Daley
    We’re about to be subjected to the frenzy commemorating the 250th anniversary of Cook’s arrival. We should get a few facts right first
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