Captain Cook Statue again vandalized before the controversial ‘Australia Day’. Domestic right news
A statue of the British Explorer is separated from red paint and is barbaric in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been separated from red paint and on Sunday, Australians have removed its hand before celebrating their controversial “Australia Day”.
The New South Wales Police said it received a report of a barbaric statue in the eastern beaches of Sydney in Randwick on Friday morning and the authorities seized “several items” at the scene.
After a similar incident in February last year, this law has recently been restored.
Cook arrived at Sydney Cove in 1770, where he and his crew landed in Botany Bay, now known as Australia for colonization by British Crown.
Nine years later, he was killed by indigenous people during an attempt to kidnap an Hawaiian chief.
As a historical person, he is often associated with Australia Day, held on 26 January, to celebrate the first fleet arrival in Australia in 1788.
Public holidays are generally combined with large protests from indigenous groups and their supporters in Australian cities, which refer to the holiday as “invasion day” or “survival day” as it is the violent European of the continent Marks the onset of colonization.
Indigenous people and their supporters argue that it marks a moment of sorrow, loss and shame to the descendants of European colonists, or alternately, the existence of the first nation’s people.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Australia was home to more than 500 different indigenous groups with many languages, which were present on the continent for 60,000 years – if not longer.
Such calls have been rejected by conservatives and nationalists as “divisive”, including former Australian liberal Prime Minister John Howard, who rejected that he “Black Armband View” of Australian history. Ko was stated in favor of shared struggle, tenacity and overcoming more positive emphasis. Disaster.
