Australia Day is known to some Indigenous Australians as Invasion Day, symbolising a key moment in the destruction of their cultures by European settlers.

Police in Australia launched an investigation on Friday after a statue of British naval officer James Cook was found vandalized in Sydney. The hand and nose of the statue of Cook, who charted Sydney’s coast in 1770,

A statue of British hero Captain James Cook has been vandalised just days before Australia Day celebrations kick off. The sandstone monument of the explorer and naval captain situated in Randwick, Sydney,