The pop star will return to the stage in Melbourne on Thursday. Now there’s a push for her statue to reappear too.
Vandals have burned the decapitated head of a King George V statue on a barbecue during an Australia Day protest in Melbourne ...
The statue, located in the Kings Domain on Linlithgow Avenue, Melbourne, was vandalised in June last year in an apparent ...
Victoria Police and the City of Melbourne are searching for the head after footage was posted on Australia Day.
The City of Melbourne acknowledges that the historical ... and the personal upset caused,' the addition read. The Anzac statue which bears the inscription 'we died for country, live ye for ...
Last year, one Captain Cook statue was cut down on the eve of the holiday, while its plinth was spray painted with the words 'the colony will fall'. Two years earlier the same Melbourne statue was ...
Vandals defaced a statue honouring John Batman, one of the pioneers for modern day Melbourne. Police responded to calls at 2.20am after it was announced the statue had been cut in half.
A few protesters took that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues of British settlers and an English king. The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was a fresh sign that ...
Two memorials and a citizenship ceremony marquee were damaged in Melbourne overnight, with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan condemning acts of "senseless vandalism" ahead of Australia Day.
In January 2024, a statue of Cook in Melbourne was doused in paint and sawn off at the ankles on the eve of Australia Day. The vandals wrote on the plinth of the statue: “The colony will fall.” ...
There are also pathways, shaded benches and statues situated throughout the ... The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne are located just south of the CBD by the Yarra River and within walking distance ...