Both monuments reportedly spray-painted with ‘The colony will fall’ in apparent protest against Australia Day date
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Victoria police are investigating “criminal damage” to a century-old Captain Cook statue in St Kilda in an apparent protest over the Australia Day public holiday.
Another statue, of Queen Victoria near the Melbourne city centre, was doused in red paint.
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