The monument in Melbourne’s Edinburgh Gardens was snapped at its base and spray-painted with the words ‘cook the colony’.

A contentious Captain Cook memorial that has been the target ... The granite monument was toppled and graffitied over the Australia Day long weekend and is currently in council storage.

A statue of Captain Cook, repeatedly targeted by vandals ... The granite monument was toppled and graffitied during the Australia Day long weekend and is currently in council storage.

People walk near a traffic cone where a monument of British explorer Captain James Cook once stood before it was removed following continued vandalism at a park Melbourne, Australia (Rod McGuirk ...

An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalised monument to renowned British explorer Captain James Cook because it would be destroyed again. But the mayor ...

An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James ...

An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalised monument to renowned British explorer Captain James Cook because it would be destroyed again. But the mayor rejected ...

Repeated vandalism of a Captain Cook memorial has prompted a local council ... crime and social issues affecting regional and remote Australia in her role as national crime reporter at Australian ...