{"id":12716,"date":"2018-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/a-captain-cook-statue-has-been-vandalised-the-day-before-australia-day\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T00:00:00","slug":"a-captain-cook-statue-has-been-vandalised-the-day-before-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/a-captain-cook-statue-has-been-vandalised-the-day-before-australia-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Captain Cook Statue Has Been Vandalised The Day Before Australia Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A statue of Captain Cook in Melbourne has had bright pink paint thrown all over it.<\/h3>\n<p>The words \u201cNo Pride\u201d were also written along the base of the St Kilda statue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/captain-cook-hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Federal citizenship minister Alan Tudge said the vandalism was a \u201cdisgrace\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThese people are trashing our national heritage by doing what they\u2019re doing and they\u2019re achieving nothing in the process,\u201d Mr Tudge told 3AW.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou can\u2019t rewrite our history.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI want Australia Day to be a great unifying day for our country, it has been for many decades now.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"828\" width=\"626\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/captain-cook.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Images | Nicole Garmston\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/james-cook-statue-vandalised-in-catani-gardens-st-kilda\/news-story\/ba059449b909d20abffae1266f7f7117?utm_content=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=EditorialSF&amp;utm_source=HeraldSun&amp;utm_medium=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">heraldsun.com.au<\/a><\/h6>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Cook statue vandalised in Catani Gardens, St Kilda. Photo: Twitter\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sthefup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sthefup<\/a> &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WxnHGGW9x5\">https:\/\/t.co\/WxnHGGW9x5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BhvyER1GoD\">pic.twitter.com\/BhvyER1GoD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Herald Sun (@theheraldsun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theheraldsun\/status\/956296576783323136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statue of Captain Cook in Melbourne has had bright pink paint thrown all over it. The words \u201cNo Pride\u201d were also written along the base of the St Kilda statue. Federal citizenship minister Alan Tudge said the vandalism was a \u201cdisgrace\u201d. \u201cThese people are trashing our national heritage by doing what they\u2019re doing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Captain Cook Statue Has Been Vandalised The Day Before Australia Day - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/a-captain-cook-statue-has-been-vandalised-the-day-before-australia-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Captain Cook Statue Has Been Vandalised The Day Before Australia Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A statue of Captain Cook in Melbourne has had bright pink paint thrown all over it. 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